{"id":13828,"date":"2019-08-09T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?page_id=13828"},"modified":"2019-08-30T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:12:19","slug":"nguyen-writer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/journal\/past-issues\/issue-11\/nguyen\/nguyen-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music has always been something that brings immense meaning to my life and reversely, has helped me express meaning through. I believe, especially with a genre like Rap and Hip-Hop that it is one of the most expressive forms of communication \u2013 constantly changing with time. It is also one of the most beautiful forms of art because it is common and can be well-liked by everyone. Which is why genres like Rap and Hip-Hop are so powerful because artists can utilize the music platform to communicate thoughtful messages. Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 sentiments about music and what it meant throughout his life resonated with me. Already being a fan of Ta-Nehisi Coates and having read his work before, I wanted to dive deeper into his relationship with music since it was a major theme in <em>The Beautiful Struggle<\/em> but never in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINH ANH NGUYEN<\/strong> is an international student from Saigon, Vietnam. She is a rising Sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, pursuing a major in Sociology. She hopes to continue her interest in writing and photography through a double major in Photojournalism. She would like to thank Professor Christina Michaud and the WR152 class: Race, Gender, and Class in the U.S. Today for igniting her passion in writing about social issues and for seeing her potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music has always been something that brings immense meaning to my life and reversely, has helped me express meaning through. I believe, especially with a genre like Rap and Hip-Hop that it is one of the most expressive forms of communication \u2013 constantly changing with time. It is also one of the most beautiful forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16503,"featured_media":0,"parent":13764,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13828\/revisions\/13829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}