{"id":4,"date":"2023-01-10T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/?p=4"},"modified":"2023-01-12T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:21:57","slug":"new-blog-who-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/2023\/01\/10\/new-blog-who-this\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog, Who This?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Connor Beer, newbie programmer. The OSU online post-bac CS degree was my introduction to the world of coding. Prior to embarking on this journey I graduated from OSU with a B.S. in Speech Communication, worked multiple government office jobs, and decided that I wanted more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many during the many months of COVID lockdown I decided that my life needed to go a different direction. Sitting at home with no one to see or talk to in isolation I turned to my favorite hobby &#8211; video games. I thought to myself, &#8220;why not learn how what I spend my time doing for fun actually works?&#8221; I&#8217;m sure my story is not unique. Many programmers and developers play video games in their spare time, and many went back to school during COVID. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a sea of people similar to me, how can this blog stand out? Honestly, I have no idea. That is something we will figure out along the way. Hopefully those of you reading will enjoy yourself and want to stay around. If not well&#8230; bye I guess. Hope to see you next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Connor Beer, newbie programmer. The OSU online post-bac CS degree was my introduction to the world of coding. Prior to embarking on this journey I graduated from OSU with a B.S. in Speech Communication, worked multiple government office jobs, and decided that I wanted more. Like many during the many months of COVID [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}