{"id":1927,"date":"2015-11-01T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T15:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2015-11-01T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T15:32:05","slug":"humans-of-western-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/humans-of-western-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/11\/HoW-e1446391870568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/11\/HoW-e1446391870568.jpg\" alt=\"HoW\" width=\"2884\" height=\"1827\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/11\/HoW-e1446391870568.jpg 2884w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/11\/HoW-e1446391870568-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2015\/11\/HoW-e1446391870568-1024x649.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2884px) 100vw, 2884px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>By: Megan Clark\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Perrin Dean, sophomore, Pre-ASL interpreting major<br \/>\nJackson Fryer, transfer student, ASL Studies major<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean:<\/strong> \u201cWe actually just like met randomly in the music hall, and he, I don\u2019t even know what you asked me-\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fryer:<\/strong> \u201cI was like, hey I\u2019m looking for people to play music with\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean:<\/strong> \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018hey, I play music!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fryer:<\/strong> \u201cAnd one thing lead to another, and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fryer:<\/strong> \u201cWell, usually [we sing together], though most of the time it\u2019s me singing and me trying to get her to sing. But she\u2019s a f&#8212;ing amazing and talented singer and musician, but she just don\u2019t think that herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fryer:<\/strong> \u201cAt least for me, if the whole ASL thing doesn\u2019t work out, then you know \u2026 I guess, it\u2019s more like if the music thing doesn\u2019t work out, then I have the whole ASL thing to fall back on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fryer:<\/strong> \u201cHave we only known each other a month?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean:<\/strong> \u201cIt has not been long! We bonded really quickly \u2026 We should make a friend-iversary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fryer:<\/strong> \u201cCan you bake a cake? I like cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fryer:<\/strong> \u201cI was in band, so my teacher was like, \u2018Hey Jackson, you want to play an instrument, right?\u2019 and I was like \u2018F&#8212; yes!\u2019 Instruments equal cool, equal friends, you know? So then he was, \u2018Yeah, so the tuba &#8230;\u2019 And I was like, \u2018That\u2019s f&#8212;ing genius!\u2019 So I started playing the tuba &#8230; I quickly realized that any instrument with a spit valve is not a cool instrument, so I switched over to the guitar, and it&#8217;s been, you know, love at first strum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perrin Dean, sophomore, Pre-ASL interpreting major<br \/>\nJackson Fryer, transfer student, ASL Studies major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":2014,"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-1927","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\/1927","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=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}