{"id":2404,"date":"2009-08-22T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2009-08-22T15:16:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:16:53","slug":"freshmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"Freshmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools and universities are starting up in a few weeks and the BBC is looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/ouch\/2009\/08\/new_students_wanted_by_bbc_ouc.html\">incoming university students with disabilities<\/a> to blog about their experiences as ivory tower initiates. Content will appear on the BBC&#8217;s disability-themed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/ouch\/\">Ouch! website<\/a>. The solicitation didn&#8217;t specify whether they are only interested in U.K. students, but it might be interesting to have an American perspective in the mix. And it could be a great way to earn yourself a little on-campus recognition, which in turn might reap rewards for your social life. The BBC is even offering a small stipend to the selected participants. <\/p>\n<p>I blogged for Ouch! a couple years and had a great time doing it, although I never did get the autographed picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billie_Piper\">Billie Piper<\/a> that I had requested. The disappointment still lingers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools and universities are starting up in a few weeks and the BBC is looking for incoming university students with disabilities to blog about their experiences as ivory tower initiates. Content will appear on the BBC&#8217;s disability-themed Ouch! website. The solicitation didn&#8217;t specify whether they are only interested in U.K. students, but it might be <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2404' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-freshmen","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}