{"id":8665,"date":"2018-05-29T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:59:49","slug":"following-creative-whims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2018\/05\/29\/following-creative-whims\/","title":{"rendered":"Following creative whims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Described by National Public Radio as \u201ca singer, rapper, poet, author, speaker, and all-around mogul,\u201d renowned recording artist Dessa visited Augsburg University this spring to engage students and community members in a conversation about making a life and a living in music. During her talk, Dessa emphasized that creativity, resourcefulness, and honest enthusiasm are essential components of a musician\u2019s journey. \u201cIndulging one\u2019s imagination is part of the task of being an artist,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Dessa2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8825 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Dessa2.png\" alt=\"Dessa speaking on a mic to students in the Augsburg University's chapel \" width=\"900\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Dessa2.png 900w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/Dessa2-768x520.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Described by National Public Radio as \u201ca singer, rapper, poet, author, speaker, and all-around mogul,\u201d renowned recording artist Dessa visited Augsburg University this spring to engage students and community members in a conversation about making a life and a living in music. During her talk, Dessa emphasized that creativity, resourcefulness, and honest enthusiasm are essential <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-summer-2018"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}