{"id":3,"date":"2016-09-07T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/about\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T23:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T23:44:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here it goes… my first blog. I understand that some blogs\u00a0can be\u00a0extremely boring so\u00a0I will try my best\u00a0to keep it as interesting and honest as possible, so bear with me.\u00a0If the title hasn’t already got you guessing, my\u00a0blog is about the issues of body image, self-esteem and the constant strive for young people to achieve perfection. I will then comment on the steps which some people decide to take in order to achieve this idea of “perfection”. This is an extremely current social issue which is being impacted by the internet and mobile communication, but specifically\u00a0by social media platforms. By looking closely into social media in particular, I will begin to review and blog about how concerns for your appearance are made dramatically worse\u00a0because of sites such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, which celebrities use to parade\u00a0their seemingly “perfect” lifestyles and flawless images. But before I start blogging about this, I should really tell you a bit about\u00a0myself and who I am because lets\u00a0be honest, no one\u00a0wants to read\u00a0a blog when they know nothing about the blogger.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A picture of me and my sisters at my mums wedding (Me on the right, Lauren in the middle and Susie my twin on the left)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My name is Danielle (but most of my friends call me Dani), I’m 20 years old and I currently go to Bournemouth\u00a0University\u00a0and study Communications and Media.\u00a0I’m now in second year, and to say\u00a0university has\u00a0changed my life would be an understatement. Before I\u00a0left\u00a0for Bournemouth, my life was\u00a0pretty boring. I come from a small town\u00a0in the Midlands called Rugby, which if you didn’t know is near cities\u00a0like\u00a0Coventry, Leicester and\u00a0Birmingham. But\u00a0fear not, I\u00a0DO NOT\u00a0have\u00a0a brummie accent \ud83d\ude09 I’m\u00a0pretty sure I don’t have any accent, well not a\u00a0strong one anyway.\u00a0To sum up Rugby, the nightlife is awful,\u00a0the shopping is even worse and the town is chav central. It didn’t take much convincing\u00a0from my sisters and parents for me\u00a0to\u00a0move out of Rugby and start a\u00a0new life at\u00a0uni. Don’t get\u00a0me wrong, leaving\u00a0is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, especially leaving my\u00a0sisters behind, but it’s also by far the best decision I’ve ever made and would encourage anyone thinking of going to take the plunge and do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m extremely close with my family,\u00a0I have 2 sisters, one is 23 and the\u00a0other is also\u00a020 like myself\u00a0– did I mention I have an identical twin? Having a twin is both a blessing and a curse.\u00a0A blessing because there is no one else in the world that knows me better than Susie,\u00a0and a curse because… well, she knows me\u00a0better than anyone so she knows exactly how to push my buttons! This means that\u00a0I\u00a0would die for her in a heartbeat while\u00a0wanting to kill her at the same time.\u00a0Oh and I forgot to mention, sharing a birthday = the worst part in having a twin. Always wondered what it would be like to have my own birthday. As for my other sister Lauren, she’s away travelling at the moment for 2 years but I hope to go visit her in Australia next year at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough about me, by now I’m\u00a0pretty sure you know the basics of what there is to know about me. From now on, I’ll post about numerous social issues related to body image and other similar things which I previously mentioned at the start. I hope you liked what you’ve read and will continue to read the rest of my blog as I add to it. Speak soon!<\/span><\/p>\n

-Dani<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S I also have Twitter and Facebook pages so feel free to check them out too and leave comments!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here it goes… my first blog. I understand that some blogs\u00a0can be\u00a0extremely boring so\u00a0I will try my best\u00a0to keep it as interesting and honest as possible, so bear with me.\u00a0If the title hasn’t already got you guessing, my\u00a0blog is about the issues of body image, self-esteem and the constant strive for young people to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}