{"id":536,"date":"2016-10-04T21:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-the-digital-silk-road.pantheonsite.io\/?p=536"},"modified":"2016-10-04T21:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:48:26","slug":"rolling-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/team-earth\/rolling-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m6663\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">October Fourth, 2016<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I feel as if Earth Team has now got a much firmer grip on the project in the days following the meeting with Professors in which we decided to go a different direction, the direction of the famous travellers of the Silk Road. I am very happy to be studying Marco Polo and his life in the more honest realistic sense rather than on a television show or movie. The act of studying him is actually very involving and rewarding. Having been in attendance at betty place lab a few days ago, I saw Tierney show us all how to work with and utilize special tools of both storyline JS and timeline JS, which was really helpful as it gives me a sense of what the timeline (which earth group has decided on) looks and feels like, which always makes a project easier.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"m_5040985365581493410gmail-docs-internal-guid-656e2670-9282-a122-fd25-8b7bdb5851ec\"><br \/>\nFall Break is coming up and I am excited to return from it and begin to learn more about the Mongols, especially with my focus on Marco Polo, any information I can receive about his time with the Mongol Court, his relationship with Kublai Khan, or his activities for the Khan, I would be happy to hear it.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October Fourth, 2016 I feel as if Earth Team has now got a much firmer grip on the project in the days following the meeting with Professors in which we decided to go a different direction, the direction of the famous travellers of the Silk Road. I am very happy to be studying Marco Polo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/team-earth\/rolling-forward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rolling forward<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}