{"id":4171,"date":"2026-01-20T15:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:08:57","slug":"interest-statement-william-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/2026\/01\/20\/interest-statement-william-hernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest Statement &#8211; William Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        I\u2019m really looking forward to the week 6 and week 14 reading involving St. Louis history and COVID-19. I moved to the St. Louis area about a year ago and I\u2019ve had a lot of fun learning more about local history such as the World\u2019s Fair, Forest Park, and Cahokia Mounds. There\u2019s so much history all over the city and I\u2019m always excited to learn more about where I live now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>        COVID-19 was a worldwide event and hearing about other people\u2019s perspectives from different regions is always interesting. It affected everyone in unique ways from having to change our work culture, school culture and just everyday life. Some people had doomsday preparations with bunkers, others had financial backup plans to work from home and some were already self-sustainable with homegrown food and filtered water. It\u2019ll be really interesting to explore how our personal culture might\u2019ve been involved in these decisions through this class.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m really looking forward to the week 6 and week 14 reading involving St. Louis history and COVID-19. I moved to the St. Louis area about a year ago and I\u2019ve had a lot of fun learning more about local history such as the World\u2019s Fair, Forest Park, and Cahokia Mounds. There\u2019s so much history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-interest-statement","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}