{"id":215,"date":"2017-07-26T23:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/?p=215"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:31:13","slug":"the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">My beginning this year started with my relocation to Vancouver, followed by my spring entry into the part-time graduate program in learning and technology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">I was mesmerized by the intense beauty and brightness of my first cherry blossom season that coincided with my first Master&#8217;s course. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">I&#8217;d like to similarly energize this blog with that spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">This is the beginning of an expansion of my public online presence to contribute content. Keeping a tree metaphor, I&#8217;m looking forward to growing my branches into this community through discussion, sharing and curating.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt\">&#8211; Nicolette<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-215-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2017\/07\/giphy.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2017\/07\/giphy.mp4\">https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2017\/07\/giphy.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarninabarn.com\/\">Tarn Inabarn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/water-green-tree-3o7btNUijQYS0WAcwg\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cherry Blossom Image:<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/3dKHfC7_1j0?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Freddy Marschall<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My beginning this year started with my relocation to Vancouver, followed by my spring entry into the part-time graduate program in learning and technology. I was mesmerized by the intense beauty and brightness of my first cherry blossom season that&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/the-beginning\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-blogs-useful-ideas-to-think-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}