{"id":188,"date":"2022-01-31T00:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T00:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=188"},"modified":"2022-01-31T00:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T00:13:21","slug":"blog-post-1-what-does-wild-mean-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/01\/31\/blog-post-1-what-does-wild-mean-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #1: What does &#8220;wild&#8221; mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the Cambridge Dictionary, \u201cwild\u201d is defined in many different ways including something uncontrolled and full of energy, not raised or grown by humans, to like something very much, and a natural place secluded from civilization where animals and plants live\/grow.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary.com\u00a0(Links to an external site.)<\/a>\u00a0defines \u201cwild\u201d as living in a state of nature, untamed or domesticated, uncultivated, barbarous and uninhabited. The Oxford Learner&#8217;s Dictionary defines wild as animals\/plants, in its natural state-not changed by people, and one without any discipline or control. All of these dictionaries define wild using the \u201cun\u201c suffix, therefore they are implying wild is something negative, dangerous, and risky. They say wild is uncontrolled, uncultivated, without discipline, and barbarous. Because of the way they define &#8220;wild&#8221; in such a negative light, it has no appeal for anyone to want to be wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think wild can mean freedom and adventure. Yes, I believe that wild can be used to describe animals that are untamed and uninhibited, but I also believe wild can mean something that has not been explored fully yet. There is a since of possibility and question.&nbsp;During our class assignment, one comment I loved and thought summed up &#8220;wild&#8221; extremely well was that &#8220;wild is anything which is not recognized by the society of its time.&#8221;&nbsp;Wild is something, by nature, that scares and intimidates&nbsp;people due to its unpredictability, but wild should be accepted and appreciated. If people were not wild, where would America be as a country? You have to be bold, different, and wild for true change and inventions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Cambridge Dictionary, \u201cwild\u201d is defined in many different ways including something uncontrolled and full of energy, not raised or grown by humans, to like something very much, and a natural place secluded from civilization where animals and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/01\/31\/blog-post-1-what-does-wild-mean-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}