{"id":3882,"date":"2025-06-23T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:38:06","slug":"another-monkey-takes-his-place-in-front-of-the-typewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2025\/06\/another-monkey-takes-his-place-in-front-of-the-typewriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Monkey Takes His Place in front of the Typewriter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings one and all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a new disembodied voice behind the Riffin Griffin. My name is William Clarke and I am a rising junior history major. I will be posting most of the new content on this blog, but that won\u2019t stop other folks (or the Prexy ghost) from posting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>My favorite things to do at Reed include taking long walks in the Canyon and playing rugby with the other members of the rugby club. A couple of alumni related things that I am excited about is learning about the history of Reed from the alumni themselves, participating in Meatsmoke (despite the fact that I am still a student), and also learning about the architecture of Reed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"953\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-10.34.24\u202fAM-1024x953.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3883\" style=\"width:432px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-10.34.24\u202fAM-1024x953.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-10.34.24\u202fAM-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-10.34.24\u202fAM-768x715.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-at-10.34.24\u202fAM.png 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On the left: Not William; Center: Not William; Right: William<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I love to listen to people talk about their time at Reed and any crazy stories that happened on the Reed Campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eagerly Listening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Clarke \u201927<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings one and all, I am a new disembodied voice behind the Riffin Griffin. My name is William Clarke and I am a rising junior history major. I will be posting most of the new content on this blog, but that won\u2019t stop other folks (or the Prexy ghost) from posting. My favorite things to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2025\/06\/another-monkey-takes-his-place-in-front-of-the-typewriter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Monkey Takes His Place in front of the Typewriter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studentlife","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}