{"id":1152,"date":"2008-01-14T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/odu-day-1\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:36","slug":"odu-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/odu-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ODU: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to write since it is my first day of classes in my new <a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"15\" href=\"http:\/\/education.odu.edu\/eci\/idt\/prospective\/doctorate.shtml\">doctoral program  at Old Dominion University<\/a>,<br \/>\nbut I felt a &#8220;first day&#8221; post was somehow newsworthy &#8211; even Tom gave me<br \/>\na, &#8220;Be a good girl, have a good time, and learn a lot &#8221; so it must have<br \/>\nmeant something to him, too. I snapped a webcam picture just before my<br \/>\nfirst web conferenced class tonight. Even if I come across as a<br \/>\ncomplete mystery to the other 98%, it is fun being an edugeek. I<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t trade it for the world!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a set=\"yes\" linkindex=\"16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmaddrell\/2193730860\/\" title=\"1st day of school by Jennifer Maddrell, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2217\/2193730860_eb9b7d126f.jpg\" alt=\"1st day of school\" height=\"276\" width=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to write since it is my first day of classes in my new doctoral program at Old Dominion University, but I felt a &#8220;first day&#8221; post was somehow newsworthy &#8211; even Tom gave me a, &#8220;Be a good girl, have a good time, and learn a lot &#8221; so it must have meant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}