{"id":629,"date":"2012-04-27T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/?p=629"},"modified":"2012-04-27T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:24:14","slug":"convention-story-reawakening-at-the-2012-sigma-tau-delta-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/convention-story-reawakening-at-the-2012-sigma-tau-delta-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention Story: \u201cReawakening\u201d at the 2012 Sigma Tau Delta Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kwilliams150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-630 alignleft\" title=\"kwilliams150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kwilliams150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kwilliams150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kwilliams150-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>by Katherine Williams<br \/>\nSouthwestern Student Representative, 2012-2013<br \/>\nArkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR<\/p>\n<p>It was a week after Mardis Gras, but beads still hung from the trees and buildings throughout New Orleans. Amid a hub of activity, such as the incredible sculptures by Thornton Dial at the Museum of Art; a vibrant street life, consisting of persons both sober and intoxicated; and a fleeting glimpse of film actor Michael Caine on his way to a film set, the city stayed wide awake and welcomed all kinds of people for the week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.org\/sigmatd\/events\/stories\/2012\/kwilliams.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If you would like to submit your own convention story, please contact <a href=\"mailto:lbrandeberry@niu.edu\">lbrandeberry@niu.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Katherine Williams Southwestern Student Representative, 2012-2013 Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR It was a week after Mardis Gras, but beads still hung from the trees and buildings throughout New Orleans. Amid a hub of activity, such as the incredible sculptures by Thornton Dial at the Museum of Art; a vibrant street life, consisting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2012-convention","category-convention-stories","category-southwestern-region"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kwilliams150.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa2J6O-a9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordybynature.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}