{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-12T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:12:42","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/essidnet\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Joe Essid<\/a> directed the University of Richmond&#8217;s Writing Center from 1991 to 2025, when he retired from full-time teaching.<\/p>\n<p>This blog began as part of the university&#8217;s first-year writing program, Eng. 103, then began to feature stories about the Writing Center and its consultants, as well as a &#8220;Word of the Week&#8221; feature read by many faculty and staff&#8211;and even some students! A few readers have contributed guest posts. Joe added a &#8220;Metaphor of the Month&#8221; feature and continues to post about words and metaphors almost weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Joe also continues to write about language, technology, and the pedagogy of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Joe Essid directed the University of Richmond&#8217;s Writing Center from 1991 to 2025, when he retired from full-time teaching. This blog began as part of the university&#8217;s first-year writing program, Eng. 103, then began to feature stories about the Writing Center and its consultants, as well as a &#8220;Word of the Week&#8221; feature read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PcsCNV-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}