{"id":3924,"date":"2016-09-21T08:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:22:24","slug":"a-blog-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/2016\/09\/21\/a-blog-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blog About Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my blog, I have a few ideas for topics that I am thinking about pursuing. There is not one area of interest or topic that I am certain I have enough ideas about to write more than one post for. The way that I will begin is by identifying something interesting that everyone is aware and write about it from a different perspective. I like the idea of pointing out the absurdity of a \u201cnormal\u201d thing and coming to a conclusion about it. For example, I could take a specific line or event from the current election and point out the absurdity of it and draw a lesson from that. Rather than focusing on the candidates this year (because the absurdity is pretty self evident), I could focus on the electorate, drawing on interesting studies and interviews done with voters. The Bloomberg website put out a very interesting\u00a0article about what divides the American people<\/a> that I could draw from. In addition, that article published on the Bloomberg website has a very interesting layout of color coding and splitting paragraphs up that I may incorporate into my own blog. Real Clear Politics<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is another blog that I could emulate. They post opinionated sometime revealing and satirical articles about politics (and other things too).<\/span>
\nIf I decide to go in another direction, I could do a blog that point to the absurdity of everyday things, objects, or practices that we have become accustomed to. For example, cell phones, Instagram, snapchat stories, college parties. I want to make the blog a little funny, so I could make fun of those things and than discuss what we can learn from unpacking that \u201cnormal\u201d thing. \u00a0As for the structure of the article, I like how Buzzfeed <\/a>spaces out the paragraphs and even sentences with pictures and a scroll down feature. It makes the content more conversational and digestible. Whatever I end up writing, I would like to make it easy to read and actually interesting. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my blog, I have a few ideas for topics that I am thinking about pursuing. There is not one area of interest or topic that I am certain I have enough ideas about to write more than one post … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[66160,110504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66160","category-student-blog-project-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","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\/3182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}