{"id":1701,"date":"2014-02-20T15:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T23:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:27","slug":"meet-your-new-bloggers-sasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/2014\/02\/20\/meet-your-new-bloggers-sasha\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your New Bloggers: Sasha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Hi Reed,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My name is Sasha. I started working at ResLife this week and am excited to work with this crew of eclectic people. I\u2019m a junior History-Russian Lit major who just returned from six months in St. Petersburg. Last year I lived in the Russian House, and it was one of the best living situations I could ask for. For anyone learning a language at Reed, I highly recommend living in the Language Houses. Living there prepared me for my time in Russia in unexpected ways, like when I learned how to pickle (very important in Russia), or when I learned all the Russian names of countries by playing Russian Risk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1702\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2014\/02\/1237498_10202208635804072_945071029_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1702 \" alt=\"In Russia with my host cat, Simon.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2014\/02\/1237498_10202208635804072_945071029_n-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2014\/02\/1237498_10202208635804072_945071029_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2014\/02\/1237498_10202208635804072_945071029_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Russia with my host cat, Simon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In my free time, I like to watch \u201cBroad City,\u201d bike around, and learn to read tarot cards. My favorite things are: pizza, music that sounds like it would be playing at a high school prom that was DJed by David Lynch, Daniil Kharms, and coffee.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 362px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glamour.com\/images\/entertainment\/2013\/04\/broad-city-w352.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"233\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ladies of &#8220;Broad City,&#8221; hands down the best comedy on TV right now.<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In my (almost) three years at Reed, I\u2019ve edited <em>The Quest<\/em>\u00a0for three semesters, worked in the mailroom, DJed at KRRC, and learned how to make a radio story from an NPR correspondent. As a kid I lived in the Midwest and California, but Portland (and Reed) is now my home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you have questions about Language Houses, going abroad, or anything housing-related, please ask!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">-Sasha<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Reed, My name is Sasha. I started working at ResLife this week and am excited to work with this crew of eclectic people. I\u2019m a junior History-Russian Lit major who just returned from six months in St. Petersburg. Last&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/2014\/02\/20\/meet-your-new-bloggers-sasha\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Meet Your New Bloggers: Sasha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,1],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-uncategorized","tag-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}