{"id":705,"date":"2016-10-28T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/?p=705"},"modified":"2016-11-03T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:06:50","slug":"fore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/2016\/10\/fore\/","title":{"rendered":"FORE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Hawkeyes,<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone is having a good semester so far. It&#8217;s crazy how fast this semester is going! There&#8217;s so many more blog posts I want to write! Anyway, at this point in the semester everyone is usually trying to find some way to destress a little bit and one fantastic way to do that is to get back into a hobby you may not have done in a while. I knew I wanted a fun, relaxing class this semester so I signed up Golf. Yes, that is correct, I took a golf class.<\/p>\n<p>The department of Lifetime Leisure Studies offers a wide range of classes for all interests. I have taken ballroom dancing and golf. I have had friends take kickboxing, volleyball, yoga, swimming, and cycling. They also have classes such as scuba diving, canoeing, and rock climbing. It&#8217;s like high school gym class, except you only do the activity that you like. The classes are worth 1 credit hour and typically only last for about 8 weeks. Some people will take two sessions in the same semester. Some people like to take the second session to help them de-stress during midterms, and some people like to take just the first session so that the class is over by the time they get to the majority of their midterms.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed my class because it meant spending time outside in the beautiful fall weather and learning about golf. I golfed in high school but would not consider myself a good golfer by any means. We had great instructors (golf professionals that would typically charge crazy prices for lessons) and I met some really awesome people. We had a ton of fun encouraging each other, searching for golf balls, and trying to become pro golfers. We met twice a week at the golf course and all of our equipment was provided. I definitely recommend these classes as a way to pick up a new hobby, learn a new skill, or just relax.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_707\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-707\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/files\/2016\/10\/FullSizeRender-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Golfing in the Sunset\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golfing in the sunset<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Hawkeyes, I hope everyone is having a good semester so far. It&#8217;s crazy how fast this semester is going! There&#8217;s so many more blog posts I want to write! Anyway, at this point in the semester everyone is usually trying to find some way to destress a little bit and one fantastic way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campuslife","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}