{"id":50,"date":"2015-01-22T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/2015\/01\/22\/best-of-week-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:30:00","slug":"best-of-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/2015\/01\/22\/best-of-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Best-of, Week 2&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grilled cheese consisted of pita bread and hummus. When I\u00a0was younger, my background was a feature I desperately tried to hide.<\/p>\n<p>She insisted that I meet this stranger. However, I was reluctant.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that my voice will jump out to the reader and show my range\u00a0of emotion throughout the trip.<\/p>\n<p>My theme is about remembrance and answering the question what happens\u00a0after we are gone.<\/p>\n<p>In my narrative I would like to focus on the topic of friendship emerging from difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful, tragic, depressing, and confusing event for me.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony itself is inherently commemorating a major change in\u00a0one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Flowing with the theme of the narrative, the opening voice will be rather\u00a0down and unhappy, followed by a calming and intelligent voice (the voice of my\u00a0father), and close with a sort of enlightened and humorous voice.<\/p>\n<p>My audience will be my peers\u2014people who may go through a similar change or realization\u2014and also myself, so I can truly reflect on my experience and almost figure out how it precisely changed me.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was I allergic to them, but they just seemed like glaring, hairball coughing, irrelevant creatures in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The voice and style will be a combination of description and dialogue, and will be in a sort of terrified, frantic, awe at my situation.<\/p>\n<p>I can pour my emotions into the writing better.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to talk about the changes I have undergone in the last 6 months, both\u00a0coming to terms with moving away from home and trying to integrate into a different country and culture.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to focus on in my narrative is the idea of escape and relaxation and how\u00a0these two ideas are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, I hope to make the scene and the characters come alive\u00a0and allow the reader to draw thematic conclusions from the genuine interactions\u00a0that took place.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=rheoftheiphone\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grilled cheese consisted of pita bread and hummus. When I\u00a0was younger, my background was a feature I desperately tried to hide. She insisted that I meet this stranger. However, I was reluctant. I hope that my voice will jump out to the reader and show my range\u00a0of emotion throughout the trip. My theme is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}