{"id":1551,"date":"2014-09-22T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2014-11-21T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:33:27","slug":"writing-about-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/2014\/09\/22\/writing-about-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing about Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being away from my country and especially from Mendoza, my native province, is teaching me to appreaciate my own culture and\u00a0hometown. &#8220;You don&#8217;t realize what you have until it&#8217;s gone,&#8221;\u00a0goes the saying. Although Mendoza is not gone from my life \u00a0(I am going to be back there\u00a0in a few months), being far away has make me aware of how much I love the place\u00a0where I grew up and where I\u00a0live.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1553\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/files\/2014\/09\/Las_Le\u00f1as_Mendoza_Argentina_by_Andre_Charland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1553\" class=\"wp-image-1553 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/files\/2014\/09\/Las_Le\u00f1as_Mendoza_Argentina_by_Andre_Charland-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Las_Le\u00f1as_Mendoza_Argentina_by_Andre_Charland\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/files\/2014\/09\/Las_Le\u00f1as_Mendoza_Argentina_by_Andre_Charland-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/files\/2014\/09\/Las_Le\u00f1as_Mendoza_Argentina_by_Andre_Charland-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las_Le\u00f1as_Mendoza_Argentina_by_Andre_Charland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This feeling\u00a0inspired me to share with my readers what I know about Mendoza and what this incredible province can offer to the visitor.\u00a0I can definitely say I I would like to design a blog that captivates the viewer since they first glance at it. Therefore, the pictures should be striking: beautiful landscapes, majestic mountains, wild rivers. All these elements should be combined with an adequate background and appropriate contrast. I would like the pictures in the home page to change constantly, as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbestravelguide.com\/\">Forbes Travel Guide Blog. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>My goal is to give general information about Mendoza in my own words and view: its history, ancient\u00a0monuments, universities, outdoor activities, gastronomy and wine industy, among others. The blog, however, is not intended to give information about<a href=\"http:\/\/valledeuco.wordpress.com\/alojamiento\/\"> hotels and accomodation, rates per night<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there are two sections that cannot miss in my blog: one where readers can learn about me (<a href=\"http:\/\/wine-republic.com\/about-us-contact\/\">about section<\/a>), so as to make my work transpartent, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/mendozatour.wordpress.com\/consultas\/\">contact me<\/a> section, where\u00a0readers can\u00a0post comments or contact me for further information about the places I describe in my blog and their feelings about my publications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being away from my country and especially from Mendoza, my native province, is teaching me to appreaciate my own culture and\u00a0hometown. &#8220;You don&#8217;t realize what you have until it&#8217;s gone,&#8221;\u00a0goes the saying. Although Mendoza is not gone from my life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/2014\/09\/22\/writing-about-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-proposal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}