{"id":1476,"date":"2012-12-12T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2012-12-12T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:28:46","slug":"whats-all-the-fuss-about-the-student-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/whats-all-the-fuss-about-the-student-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s All the Fuss About the Student Newspaper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mairead Poulin \u201913 is the current Editor-in-Chief of The Willistonian. She likes coffee, Italian Greyhounds, the occasional thunderstorm, and speaking her mind. Her column, <\/em>From The Editor\u2019s Desk<em>, is published weekly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was little, I was a pathological liar. I have distinct memories of creating the most outlandish, completely impossible stories, and sharing them with the adults in my family (who surely <em>must<\/em> have known that I was telling tall tales). I attribute this unattractive hobby to my love for telling stories. And once I graduated to scribbling, and later typing, out my stories (instead of passing them off as the truth), I formed a distinct definition of writing:\u00a0the sharing of the details of a story in a way that made people want to read it. I figured that this made me a lover of \u201ccreative writing\u201d \u2013 someone who specializes in fiction. But when I came to Williston as a freshman, I realized that my love for telling stories could translate into another form of writing: student journalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/willistonian\/2012\/12\/11\/whats-all-the-fuss-about-the-student-newspaper\/#more-708\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mairead Poulin \u201913 is the current Editor-in-Chief of The Willistonian. She likes coffee, Italian Greyhounds, the occasional thunderstorm, and speaking her mind. Her column, From The Editor\u2019s Desk, is published weekly. When I was little, I was a pathological liar. I have distinct memories of creating the most outlandish, completely impossible stories, and sharing them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/whats-all-the-fuss-about-the-student-newspaper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019s All the Fuss About the Student Newspaper?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}