{"id":496,"date":"2012-02-13T11:34:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/?p=496"},"modified":"2013-11-25T14:39:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T19:39:33","slug":"thinking-of-applying-for-a-fulbright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/2012\/02\/13\/thinking-of-applying-for-a-fulbright\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Applying for a Fulbright?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a title=\"Evan Sparling '08 Kyrgyzstan Fulbright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/academics\/programs\/russian\/content\/Alumni\/\">Evan Sparling &#8217;08 <\/a>(Russian and History) spoke about his year in Kyrgyzstan as a Fulbright scholar studying Kyrgyz national identity, teaching at Kyrgyz National University, and learning to appreciate local favorites such as mares&#8217; milk (think runny alcoholic yogurt). Evan currently works for Pacific Environment, an environmental non-profit based in San Francisco, where he coordinates their salmon preservation programs on Russia&#8217;s Kamchatka peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/IMG_2603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-497\" alt=\"IMG_2603\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/IMG_2603-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/IMG_2608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-498\" alt=\"IMG_2608\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/IMG_2608-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Sparling &#8217;08 (Russian and History) spoke about his year in Kyrgyzstan as a Fulbright scholar studying Kyrgyz national identity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85116,1877],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fulbright","tag-russian","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}