{"id":1680,"date":"2015-10-09T21:11:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2015-10-09T21:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T05:11:03","slug":"humans-of-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/humans-of-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/10\/HoWColor-e1444453712720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/10\/HoWColor-e1444453712720.jpg\" alt=\"HoWColor\" width=\"6346\" height=\"5270\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/10\/HoWColor-e1444453712720.jpg 8262w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/10\/HoWColor-e1444453712720-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/10\/HoWColor-e1444453712720-1024x850.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6346px) 100vw, 6346px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>By: Megan Clark \r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>All text is taken directly from a conversation with a featured Western student.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Nielsen, junior, music major, human.<\/p>\n<p>I see music as being the same kind of thing as dance, or painting, or just the way that the grass grows. I don\u2019t really know about passion; I guess I don\u2019t really understand that word very well &#8230; I always thought that I was passionate about it. But I think that it&#8217;s more just striving to learn about these natural things; music is something that is really natural to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The type of fun [little kids] are having is safe &#8230; just running around, playing with each other, being nice to each other, just loving &#8230; I think that is a thing that makes me the most happy. Because there\u2019s no reason why the rest of us can\u2019t be like that. Why can\u2019t we be like that all the time?<\/p>\n<p>[My friend] just handed me this baby, and I was like, \u201cDude I don\u2019t even know how to hold it right&#8230;\u201d I\u2019ve held babies before, so I don\u2019t really get why this happened &#8230; it just felt so comforting, and just so, like, enjoyable to be holding this baby, even though the baby was like \u201coh I don\u2019t really want you to hold me, because this is a little uncomfortable.\u201d She didn\u2019t like, start screaming at me or anything, but \u2026 it kind of enlightened me about this feeling that girls have when they hold babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All text is taken directly from a conversation with a featured Western student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}