{"id":2,"date":"2005-06-22T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T22:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flavor8.com\/wkistler\/am_blog\/?p=2"},"modified":"2006-05-24T04:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T09:21:00","slug":"the-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/2005\/06\/22\/the-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"The setup:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my blog.  Here I will chronicle my journey through the AnimationMentor.com program.  I&#8217;m extremely excited about AM, and have been since I heard about it back around Christmas time, &#8217;04.  I just graduated in May &#8217;05 with a degree in Computer Graphics Technology, with a focus in animation, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\">Purdue University<\/a>.  They turned me out as a marginally skilled graphics generalist.  The few animation classes that I took were enough to whet my appetite for more, but, alas, they were not enough to turn me into a highly skilled, much-sought-after animator.  I think AM fits perfectly with my goal of one day being a professional character animator.<\/p>\n<p>To see my pre-AM work, check out my current portfolio site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willk.com\">willk.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my blog. Here I will chronicle my journey through the AnimationMentor.com program. I&#8217;m extremely excited about AM, and have been since I heard about it back around Christmas time, &#8217;04. I just graduated in May &#8217;05 with a degree in Computer Graphics Technology, with a focus in animation, from Purdue University. They turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}