{"id":42,"date":"2016-01-05T01:35:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2016-01-05T01:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T01:35:05","slug":"weekly-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/assignments\/weekly-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Tuesday, by 12:30 p.m., you\u2019ll submit a 300-400-word post to the course blog. In the post, you\u2019ll identify something you encountered in\u00a0your daily life that reminded you of something in the coming week\u2019s reading (either Tuesday\u2019s or Thursday\u2019s reading).<\/p>\n<p>It could be anything. Examples of things students have written about\u00a0in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a billboard<\/li>\n<li>a Tumblr post<\/li>\n<li>a museum exhibit<\/li>\n<li>a movie<\/li>\n<li>a television show<\/li>\n<li>a peer-reviewed article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post should include a description of the thing you\u2019re writing about (and ideally a link and\/or image or other media) and an explanation of how it relates to the reading. Does it illuminate the phenomenon described in the reading, extend the argument of the reading, or challenge the argument? Why?<\/p>\n<p>I should be able to tell from this post that you\u2019ve read and thought about the week\u2019s reading and attempted to connect it to your daily life.<\/p>\n<p>You can see examples of other students\u2019 blog posts (for a different course) <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/dh101f14\/?page_id=2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Comments<\/h3>\n<p>By classtime on Thursday of the same week, you\u2019ll post substantial comments to two of your classmates\u2019 blog posts. These can be short, but they should be thoughtful, respectful, and demonstrate that you\u2019ve carefully considered your classmate\u2019s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Tuesday, by 12:30 p.m., you\u2019ll submit a 300-400-word post to the course blog. In the post, you\u2019ll identify something you encountered in\u00a0your daily life that reminded you of something &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/assignments\/weekly-blog-posts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly Blog Posts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}