{"id":144,"date":"2016-08-26T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/?p=144"},"modified":"2016-08-26T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T22:53:19","slug":"week-two-writing-a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/week-two-writing-a-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Week two: writing a letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your assignment (due Sunday night) is to write a post-able letter to someone who doesn&#8217;t live near you\/whom you don&#8217;t see all the time these days. Then write a paragraph analyzing or reflecting on the experience, the letter, letters as a medium, your history with written letters, or using such an old (obsolete?) medium in a digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Reading: for Monday: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/11\/letter-writing-in-the-digital-age-emails-and-correspondence-of-russell-banks-others.html\">On letters in the digital age<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingrockets.org\/article\/introduction-letter-writing\">Resource on letter writing<\/a> (intended for kids in UK but still interesting!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember to bring your letter and your recipient&#8217;s postal address to class on Monday\u2026 the\u00a0envelopes and domestic stamps are on me!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Sorry to be slow off the mark with this posting\u2014but I love the fact that some folks have already beaten me to the punch with thoughtful posts!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your assignment (due Sunday night) is to write a post-able letter to someone who doesn&#8217;t live near you\/whom you don&#8217;t see all the time these days. Then write a paragraph analyzing or reflecting on the experience, the letter, letters as a medium, your history with written letters, or using such an old (obsolete?) medium in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/week-two-writing-a-letter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week two: writing a letter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-assignment","category-probe","tag-letter","tag-old-media"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}