{"id":4086,"date":"2018-12-01T13:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2018-12-01T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T18:52:02","slug":"pop-culture-the-kweens-last-hoorah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4086","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture: The Kween&#8217;s Last Hoorah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Harrison Squire Mines<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a last-semester senior, the chance to take a moment to consider pop culture a few times a month has been a personal pleasure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RC churns out students who are well-rounded academically; encouraging its community to engage in their greater world. Staying informed and up on current events can be challenging and, in recent months, rather exhausting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If I had to leave this column with any lasting wisdom, it would be to always revel in the fun of pop culture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contrary to the belief of many, music, film and the trends that surround it are to be enjoyed first and examined second. While entertainment is, at face-value, entertaining, it will never hurt to take a closer look at the items on your screen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doing so has made me a well-rounded media student. Pop culture gives me a reference point for many parts of my day; from getting dressed to discussion in my Communication Seminar. Pop culture will forever be evolving and unfixed, though reliably comfortable and exciting in the smallest of ways. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Harrison Squire Mines As a last-semester senior, the chance to take a moment to consider pop culture a few times a month has been a personal pleasure. RC churns out students who are well-rounded academically; encouraging its community to engage in their greater world. Staying informed and up on current events can be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8323.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}