{"id":1,"date":"2019-12-05T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-12-09T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:29:30","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/2019\/12\/05\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the Office of Multicultural Affairs\u2019 Student Blog, OMA<em>Talks<\/em>! A space for UMass Lowell students to share experiences and feedback on our campus-community and culture. Your&nbsp;<em>voice<\/em>&nbsp;matters! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>How can we come together as one community?<\/li><li>What has been your experience as an underrepresented student at UMass Lowell?<\/li><li>How can UMass Lowell better support your identity?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Share a little piece of your UMass Lowell experience with the OMA community! Connect with us through email at: <a href=\"mailto:multicultural_affairs@uml.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multicultural_affairs@uml.edu<\/a> if you have an idea for a blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2> <strong>Important<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nPlease refer to our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/guidelines-and-policies\/\">Blog Guidelines and Policy<\/a> tab when writing your blog post. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2019\/12\/OMATalks-Banner-2019-1024x371.jpg\" alt=\"Office of Multicultural Affairs official banner of the student blog reading &quot;OMATalks&quot; with pictures of student from various OMA events and clubs in the background as a collage.\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2019\/12\/OMATalks-Banner-2019-1024x371.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2019\/12\/OMATalks-Banner-2019-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2019\/12\/OMATalks-Banner-2019-768x278.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2019\/12\/OMATalks-Banner-2019-500x181.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Office of Multicultural Affairs\u2019 Student Blog, OMATalks! A space for UMass Lowell students to share experiences and feedback on our campus-community and culture. Your&nbsp;voice&nbsp;matters! &nbsp; How can we come together as one community? What has been your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/2019\/12\/05\/welcome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/omatalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}