{"id":1569,"date":"2012-12-13T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2012-12-13T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:30:49","slug":"diving-head-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/diving-head-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving Head First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/pen-world-voices-festival-of-international-literature-the-insiders-scoop\/jlpeacock150\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-675\" alt=\"Jon L. Peacock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/jlpeacock150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/jlpeacock150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/jlpeacock150-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.org\/sigmatd\/about\/student_leadership\/ar_bio.shtml#aar\">Jon L Peacock<\/a><br \/>\nAlumni Representative, 2012-2013<br \/>\nOmicron Zeta Chapter<br \/>\nAlumnus of Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n<p>When I became a member of Sigma Tau Delta, I was a graduate student at Long Island University, Brooklyn campus, and our chapter had been inactive for a number of years. Our Sponsor wanted to breathe new life into the chapter, and needed a student leader to help with this, so basically I hit the &#8220;English Honors&#8221; ground running. I became President of the chapter, recruited fellow creative writers as our Sponsor recruited undergrads, and we immediately planned events and fundraisers. The following spring I led a panel at the 2010 Convention in St. Louis, and graduated soon after, thinking my time with Sigma Tau Delta was over. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.org\/sigmatd\/events\/stories\/2012\/jpeacock.shtml\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If you are interested in submitting a Convention Story, please <a href=\"mailto:info@wordybynature.org\">contact us<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jon L Peacock Alumni Representative, 2012-2013 Omicron Zeta Chapter Alumnus of Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY When I became a member of Sigma Tau Delta, I was a graduate student at Long Island University, Brooklyn campus, and our chapter had been inactive for a number of years. Our Sponsor wanted to breathe new life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-convention","category-alumni","category-convention-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}