{"id":1661,"date":"2016-08-03T01:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T05:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/sla2016\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2016-08-03T01:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T05:46:56","slug":"lets-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/2016\/08\/03\/lets-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, friends! Welcome to my Beijing blog!<\/p>\n<p>First of all, my sincerest apologies to everyone for the delay &#8211; to call this first post overdue would be an understatement. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been keeping myself so busy studying and absorbing the local culture that I&#8217;ve unfortunately neglected the most important aspects of my study abroad experience &#8211; careful examination and reflection. \u00a0I&#8217;d like to use this blog as a medium to sort through and recount my most significant experiences in Beijing, and I hope you&#8217;ll learn some interesting things as you read!<\/p>\n<p>Before I begin, I&#8217;d like to thank my family, friends, teachers, and advisers who have all provided me with invaluable advice and support. \u00a0I&#8217;d especially like to thank Notre Dame&#8217;s Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures and the Liu Institute for their generous financial support.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for making this experience possible, and hopefully,\u00a0I can express with some lucidity what I have encountered during my time in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, friends! Welcome to my Beijing blog! First of all, my sincerest apologies to everyone for the delay &#8211; to call this first post overdue would be an understatement. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been keeping myself so busy studying and absorbing the local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/2016\/08\/03\/lets-begin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}