{"id":90,"date":"2018-01-03T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/?p=90"},"modified":"2018-01-03T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:40:47","slug":"self-introduction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/kyoto-2018\/self-introduction-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! \u00a0My name is Franky. \u00a0I am a junior and a biology major at Williams. \u00a0I am very excited to be going to Kyoto. \u00a0For the duration of this winter study I will be researching Zen and Zen Priests with Breelyn. \u00a0I look forward to working on this topic because I have had a brief exposure to Zen both through the Japanese Art and Culture course offered at Williams and the Zen Buddhism Intensive winter study course. \u00a0However, I anticipate that my understanding of Zen will deepen as a result of our on-campus research and our journey through Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited. \u00a0I\u2019m not entirely sure what to expect, but I think a lack of expectations will be what makes this experience fun. \u00a0All that I know for sure is that this journey will open my eyes and push me out of my comfort zone. \u00a0It will be nice to learn, observe, and feel the culture of Kyoto, even if only for ten days. \u00a0I intend to do what I can to get the most out of this exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers to a new year and a new adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! \u00a0My name is Franky. \u00a0I am a junior and a biology major at Williams. \u00a0I am very excited to be going to Kyoto. \u00a0For the duration of this winter study I will be researching Zen and Zen Priests with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/kyoto-2018\/self-introduction-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyoto-2018","tag-introduction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}