{"id":667,"date":"2017-07-09T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/?p=667"},"modified":"2017-07-09T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T13:37:27","slug":"first-week-of-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/2017\/07\/09\/first-week-of-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"First week of classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very excited about being in a poli. sci. class while I am here in Kosovo. In my first year at RIT, I was missing a lot of the debate that I got in my APs in high school. The Peace Keeping and Conflict Transformation course will allow me to gain a better understanding of peacekeeping operations, humanitarian aid, and the meaning of transformation. I can already tell this class will be extremely challenging, but I&#8217;m excited to learn something\u00a0new. The work outside\u00a0of class has been making sense to me and it is really thought-provoking. I hope the rest of this course continues to be as interesting. My reasoning for taking this course is to be able to be informed about these issues so that I could potentially document them in my future as a photojournalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very excited about being in a poli. sci. class while I am here in Kosovo. In my first year at RIT, I was missing a lot of the debate that I got in my APs in high school. The Peace Keeping and Conflict Transformation course will allow me to gain a better understanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/2017\/07\/09\/first-week-of-classes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First week of classes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,38,40],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-auk","tag-class","tag-peace-keeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pj.rit.edu\/kosovo\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}