{"id":1612,"date":"2010-04-28T14:33:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/?page_id=1612"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:32:06","slug":"duy-doan-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/past-fellows\/2010-global-fellows\/duy-doan-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Duy Doan: Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 2, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This September I will travel to Vietnam where I&#8217;ll stay mostly in Hanoi, the country&#8217;s capital and artistic center.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve grown up hearing about Hanoi&#8217;s beauty, as the city of artists and poets, but I have only seen it in photographs.\u00a0 At twenty-eight, I\u2019m interested in seeing how quickly my romantic notions of &#8220;the motherland&#8221; dissolve while I&#8217;m there, or perhaps, to see if they dissolve at all.\u00a0 At any rate, my writing can only benefit from the challenge.\u00a0 Although I will try to keep busy by taking language lessons and studying folk poetry and folk songs, my main goal is to continue the current rate at which I&#8217;ve been writing since the workshops began last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, 2010 This September I will travel to Vietnam where I&#8217;ll stay mostly in Hanoi, the country&#8217;s capital and artistic center.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve grown up hearing about Hanoi&#8217;s beauty, as the city of artists and poets, but I have only seen it in photographs.\u00a0 At twenty-eight, I\u2019m interested in seeing how quickly my romantic notions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"parent":1411,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1612\/revisions\/3922"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}