{"id":2479,"date":"2012-01-26T23:35:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/studentlife\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2012-01-26T23:35:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:35:25","slug":"introductions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2012\/01\/26\/introductions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Billy Rathje, and I thought that I would start my first blog post by introducing myself. I am a freshman here at the University of Puget Sound. I plan to study English and Chemistry, and I am in the honors program. In my spare time, I also acted in the fall play <em>As You Like It<\/em>, took piano lessons, and wrote a one-act play. One of my favorite things about Puget Sound is that students can and do study science, act in a play, perform in a musical ensemble, write for the newspaper, participate in work study, participate in a sport like crew, and so on all in one semester. (I exaggerate, but I know many students whose schedules are not far from this.)<\/p>\n<p>I realize that this post is short, but I\u2019m dedicating my next few posts to, \u201cWhat I Did Over my Winter Vacation.\u201d Having a four-week winter vacation is very nice, and while it may seem like a lot of time, mine went really quickly because I was involved in two major projects: producing an original musical that I wrote with my brother and working in a biochemistry lab. It was the most productive and busiest break that I have ever had!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all for right now. Stay tuned for my next set of posts on rehearsing a musical and working in a science lab!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Billy Rathje, and I thought that I would start my first blog post by introducing myself. I am a freshman here at the University of Puget Sound. I plan to study English and Chemistry, and I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/2012\/01\/26\/introductions-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75,201,239,294,315],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billy-rathje-15","tag-billy","tag-lab","tag-musical","tag-rathje","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}