{"id":10595,"date":"2018-10-08T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:18:33","slug":"facing-fears-as-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Fears as a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sam Risak<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dual MA\/MFA Student<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/10\/sam.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10596 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/10\/sam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/10\/sam.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/10\/sam-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>This fall, I moved from Florida and started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/graduate-studies\/creative-writing-mfa.aspx\">MFA in Creative Writing program<\/a> at Chapman University. I\u2019m starting to get settled here, but I\u2019m not settling as a writer. In fact, it\u2019s just the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few weeks into my first semester, and I\u2019ve gained insight from writers who (unknowingly) articulated what had been a nebulous problem recurrent in my writing. At one of the Tabula Poetica readings this semester, visiting poet Sarah Ann Winn admitted she used to fear writing about sentimental topics (like her grandmother) because of the stigma of unoriginality surrounding sentimentality in literary writing. She worked past her hesitation, however, and reimagined potential clich\u00e9s into the original forms readers find in her award-winning collection <a href=\"https:\/\/bluebirdwords.com\/about\/\">Alma Almanac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After her reading, I thought back to several of my lackluster stories and realized I had muddled them to fit the expectations of my imagined readers. My interests in fiction cannot be contained to the strictly realistic world, and while speculative or magical-realist literary writers exist, academia often seems to pretend they don\u2019t. Similar to Winn, I feared the bizarre would delegitimize my work. I found myself as someone with a Scooby-Doo-man-in-a-mask predictability, my character\u2019s mental distress rationalizing every fantastic scenario I wrote. Fortunately, Chapman\u2019s MFA\u2014unlike many in the country\u2014talks about speculative fiction and magical realism as valid options for students. That assurance has allowed me to start experimenting and pushing further as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>In Aspects of a Writer, a class incoming MFA students take together, we\u2019re reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creative-Quest-Questlove\/dp\/0062670557\">Creative Quest<\/a>, a book that discusses breaking creative comfort zones. Musician-turned-author Questlove refers to the music video \u201cStan\u201d by Eminem, admiring how it takes a private fear\u2014that of an obsessive fan\u2014and follows it to the worst possible end. The video isn\u2019t something you\u2019d want to bring up in everyday conversation, which is why it succeeds; it disturbs us from the root.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not suggesting that every piece of writing needs to be transformed into horrific nightmare. In fact, Winn\u2019s transformative use of forms (like how-to lists and image captions) allows her to embrace the sentimental. I\u2019m suggesting that the most honest and interesting pieces are often made when the creator follows an idea to the furthest possible conclusion. For me, this means that whatever weird images I write into my stories need to be actualized, not dismissed as manifestations of the mind. For another story, poem, or essay (or really, any form of art), it might be an image or memory that the piece has been tiptoeing around. It\u2019s easy for writers to shape their writing based on how they want to be perceived by other writers, but, at the end of the day, if we are left unsatisfied, our readers will likely be as well.<\/p>\n<p>When we control much of what we present to the world, reading what others aren\u2019t comfortable showing can help alleviate alienation against the strangeness we perceive in ourselves. In first drafts, my fear to step outside the confines of realistic fiction shows, my characters too grounded in the real world, their experiences all plausibly justifiable. Only afterward, in revision, can I see my logic as a way of ensuring distance between myself and the reader. In the MFA program, I have discovered an insecurity I was not previously aware I had. Now that I can see it, I can overcome it and produce something I\u2014and, I hope, others\u2014 will want to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Risak Dual MA\/MFA Student This fall, I moved from Florida and started the MFA in Creative Writing program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":16757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[662,2198,2532,2523,165],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-news","tag-creative-writing","tag-graduate-students","tag-mfa-in-creative-writing-program","tag-mfa-students","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Voice of Wilkinson | Chapman Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facing Fears as a Writer - The Voice of Wilkinson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sam Risak Dual MA\/MFA Student This fall, I moved from Florida and started the MFA in Creative Writing program [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Voice of Wilkinson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-08T19:18:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Laura Silva\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Laura Silva\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Laura Silva\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/84828a9131db9c0203945b41e3916ff1\"},\"headline\":\"Facing Fears as a Writer\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-08T19:18:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":602,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/62\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Creative Writing\",\"Graduate Students\",\"MFA in Creative Writing program\",\"MFA students\",\"Writing\"],\"articleSection\":[\"English\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/\",\"name\":\"Facing Fears as a Writer - The Voice of Wilkinson\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/62\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-08T19:18:33+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/62\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/62\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg\",\"width\":2400,\"height\":1600},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/08\\\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Facing Fears as a Writer\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Voice of Wilkinson\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Voice of Wilkinson\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/62\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/62\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":435,\"caption\":\"The Voice of Wilkinson\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/84828a9131db9c0203945b41e3916ff1\",\"name\":\"Laura Silva\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c36e0a05759d1a79a5ad998a791932333c37580ace4fbac9cc7b0157c1a66261?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c36e0a05759d1a79a5ad998a791932333c37580ace4fbac9cc7b0157c1a66261?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c36e0a05759d1a79a5ad998a791932333c37580ace4fbac9cc7b0157c1a66261?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Laura Silva\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.chapman.edu\\\/wilkinson\\\/author\\\/lsilva\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Voice of Wilkinson | Chapman Blogs","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Facing Fears as a Writer - The Voice of Wilkinson","og_description":"By Sam Risak Dual MA\/MFA Student This fall, I moved from Florida and started the MFA in Creative Writing program [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/","og_site_name":"The Voice of Wilkinson","article_published_time":"2018-10-08T19:18:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2400,"height":1600,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Laura Silva","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Laura Silva","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/"},"author":{"name":"Laura Silva","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#\/schema\/person\/84828a9131db9c0203945b41e3916ff1"},"headline":"Facing Fears as a Writer","datePublished":"2018-10-08T19:18:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/"},"wordCount":602,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg","keywords":["Creative Writing","Graduate Students","MFA in Creative Writing program","MFA students","Writing"],"articleSection":["English","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/","name":"Facing Fears as a Writer - The Voice of Wilkinson","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg","datePublished":"2018-10-08T19:18:33+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/Chapman3_18Campus-2.jpg","width":2400,"height":1600},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/10\/08\/facing-fears-as-a-writer\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Facing Fears as a Writer"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/","name":"The Voice of Wilkinson","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#organization","name":"The Voice of Wilkinson","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2026\/03\/MasterBrand_000-scaled-1.png","width":2560,"height":435,"caption":"The Voice of Wilkinson"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/#\/schema\/person\/84828a9131db9c0203945b41e3916ff1","name":"Laura Silva","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c36e0a05759d1a79a5ad998a791932333c37580ace4fbac9cc7b0157c1a66261?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c36e0a05759d1a79a5ad998a791932333c37580ace4fbac9cc7b0157c1a66261?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c36e0a05759d1a79a5ad998a791932333c37580ace4fbac9cc7b0157c1a66261?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Laura Silva"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/wilkinson"],"url":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/author\/lsilva\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}