{"id":126,"date":"2024-01-25T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/?p=126"},"modified":"2024-01-25T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:24:00","slug":"my-winter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/2024\/01\/25\/my-winter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"My Winter Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The peace and quiet this winter break were long overdue. I certainly did not miss the litany of alarms going off on my roommate&#8217;s and my phones.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Back in my hometown, I caught up with all my high school friends. Nothing beats the familiarity of old friends and the stories that never get old. As a break from the routine, I decided to join a Pilates class, which ended up being my favorite part of the day. Yeah, I was breaking a sweat during the break, but it surprisingly felt good.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8110-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8110-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8110-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8110-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8110.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-132 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8119-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8119-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8119-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8119-1-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/files\/2024\/01\/IMG_8119-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>I also decided to take a pottery class. It started as a random idea, but getting hands-on with clay turned out to be strangely therapeutic and I hope to give it a real try soon.<\/p>\r\n<p>However, the highlight of my break was when my 5 and 7-year-old cousins came to visit. We shared the best times together, having what we like to call &#8220;Self-Care Nights&#8221; where we put on face masks and watch our favorite movies (Tangled is always a must-watch).<\/p>\r\n<p>And of course, the classic winter break move \u2013 binge-watching shows with my mom. Cozy nights, blankets, and a TV series marathon \u2013 it became our thing. From intense dramas to guilty pleasure sitcoms, we covered it all.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peace and quiet this winter break were long overdue. I certainly did not miss the litany of alarms going off on my roommate&#8217;s and my phones.\u00a0 Back in my hometown, I caught up with all my high school friends. Nothing beats the familiarity of old friends and the stories that never get old. As a break from the routine, I decided to join a Pilates class, which ended up being my favorite part of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/diya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}