{"id":2026,"date":"2022-03-02T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:21:26","slug":"world-book-day-spotlight-on-student-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/world-book-day-spotlight-on-student-author\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day: Spotlight on Student Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chantil Thomas, first year Media and Communications student, shares her motivation around her debut book\u00a0\u2018Selah-Encounters\u2019 with the Canterbury Christ Church Student News team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I\u2019ve always been writing, never really published but always writing something. I always have my journal with me wherever I go. Writing has become a space for me to lean into when I am happy, when I am feeling a bit low or when I am processing something. Words allow me to delve into the unknown, that part of me that holds my truth. That part of me that stands with me..<\/p><cite>Chantil Thomas<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full post <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/345ONcg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"CCCU Student Blog\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/35p0fAj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Media and Communications Courses\">Media and Communications courses<\/a> at Canterbury Christ Church University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chantil Thomas, first year Media and Communications student, shares her motivation around her debut book\u00a0\u2018Selah-Encounters\u2019 with the Canterbury Christ Church Student News team. I\u2019ve always been writing, never really published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4078,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[581,18,9],"tags":[726,730],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-our-students","tag-studentauthor","tag-worldbookday-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Laura Krutnik","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/637\/2022\/03\/student-author.png","postExcerpt":"Chantil Thomas, first year Media and Communications student, shares her motivation around her debut book\u00a0\u2018Selah-Encounters\u2019 with the Canterbury Christ Church Student News team. I\u2019ve always been writing, never really published [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}