{"id":82,"date":"2013-11-07T00:43:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T00:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-11-07T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T19:08:11","slug":"test-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"The Very First Post: an Introduction and Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is my very first post on this blog. It will be used as a way of showing the progress of my thesis project, which I selected last spring. This is where I’ll start with the story of my thesis project. Last spring,\u00a0I chose narrative as my thesis area of inquiry; more specifically I chose to focus on how narratives can be expressed in new and different ways by visual means.<\/p>\n

I began the process of exploring my thesis last year through several class projects which \u00a0examined the way structures of narrative can be visualized or revealed. The very first project I did that lead to my area of inquiry is pictured below. It explores patterns in stories. I compared one of my own story drafts to a novel by one of my favorite authors, Garth Nix.<\/p>\n

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From here, I completed a couple of other projects which continued to explore my topic of interest, including an installation that invites viewers to participate in the creation of stories, and a diagram which explores the idea of a narrative expressed through the use of a diagram structure.<\/p>\n

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So this is my very first post on this blog. It will be used as a way of showing the progress of my thesis project, which I selected last spring. This is where I’ll start with the story of my thesis project. Last spring,\u00a0I chose narrative as my thesis area \u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandrakolker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}