{"id":18690,"date":"2016-08-03T05:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T05:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=18690"},"modified":"2016-08-03T05:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T05:35:30","slug":"bearsofbaylor-i-started-as-a-jazz-bass-player-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/08\/bearsofbaylor-i-started-as-a-jazz-bass-player-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor &#8212; &#8220;I started as a jazz bass player, in New York&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I started as a jazz bass player, in New York, and so I had this idea that I wanted to make money and eat, so I entered the very lucrative English profession. &#8230; I\u2019m starting my 5th year of the English Ph.D. program, which is weird to realize now, to say out loud, but yeah, that\u2019s where I am&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m from New Jersey, so I never wanted to come down to Texas, ever. It was not on my map; it was on my anti-map, because I don\u2019t like it when it gets above 80 degrees. But when I looked into it, I thought it looked great. &#8230; I really appreciated [Baylor\u2019s] attempt to combine Christian scholarship and Christian thought with serious academics and deliberate aggressiveness of that push. I thought it was really great to be a part of something like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18691\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bob-english-jul16.jpg\" alt=\"#BearsOfBaylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bob-english-jul16.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bob-english-jul16-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bob-english-jul16-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bob-english-jul16-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Every Baylor Bear has a story; #BearsOfBaylor brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people&#8230; This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I started as a jazz bass player, in New York, and so I had this idea that I wanted to make money and eat, so I entered the very lucrative English profession. &#8230; I\u2019m starting my 5th year of the English Ph.D. program, which is weird to realize now, to say out loud, but yeah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}