{"id":7,"date":"2021-09-15T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/practical-cori.208-109-36-47.plesk.page\/hopel3\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2024-12-20T01:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T09:35:50","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1311\" height=\"1967\" src=\"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240328-DSC06631-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369\" style=\"width:124px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240328-DSC06631-edited.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240328-DSC06631-edited-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240328-DSC06631-edited-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240328-DSC06631-edited-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240328-DSC06631-edited-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1311px) 100vw, 1311px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It all started with dinner table jokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since elementary school, I&#8217;ve recounted &#8220;what I did today&#8221; epics to my parents and four younger siblings. While my parents learned to cut me off before my siblings choked on their food from laughter, I learned how to externally process, adapt to my audience, and synthesize on the fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional print reporting and design, a WordPress dive, and a quick pre-pandemic spot on the improv team in high school shaped my design and communication styles. At Biola, I explored all that the Adobe Suite has to offer, and began to pick favorites in the realm of storytelling\u2014writing, graphic design, photojournalism, and podcasting are some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the Torrey Honors College, I can comfortably translate my everyday yap to academic bonum-verum-pulchrum-speak and then back to a colloquial vernacular, and have fun doing it! My <a href=\"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/academic-writing\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"450\">academic papers<\/a> have ranged from (the metaphor of) spiritual pregnancy in Augustine&#8217;s Confessions to mankind&#8217;s creation for uncreated ends from Scripture, Plato, Traherne, and Pseudo-Dionysius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with dinner table jokes. Since elementary school, I&#8217;ve recounted &#8220;what I did today&#8221; epics to my parents and four younger siblings. While my parents learned to cut me off before my siblings choked on their food from laughter, I learned how to externally process, adapt to my audience, and synthesize on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djam.biola.edu\/hopel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}