{"id":470,"date":"2026-01-15T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/?p=470"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:48:06","slug":"winter-break-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/2026\/01\/15\/winter-break-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Break Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to the blog after a nice month off. I return to Iowa City this week for spring RA training, and then classes start next week! Let&#8217;s get my last semester on the road!<\/p>\n<p>My break was very nice, I spent most of it with my family and my three dogs. I caught up with some hometown friends and worked my high school job as well, so I got out of the house!<\/p>\n<p>In my free time, I applied for jobs, read, and did some fun hobbies like coloring, drawing, and watching movies.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a book I finished reading recently:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-471\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0537-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0537-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0537-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0537-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0537.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed your break!<\/p>\n<p>-Solenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello all! Welcome back to the blog after a nice month off. I return to Iowa City this week for spring RA training, and then classes start next week! Let&#8217;s get my last semester on the road! My break was very nice, I spent most of it with my family and my three dogs. I caught up with some hometown friends and worked my high school job as well, so I got out of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}