{"id":10827,"date":"2019-06-19T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10827"},"modified":"2019-06-19T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:58:13","slug":"nostalgia-podcast-asimos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/06\/19\/nostalgia-podcast-asimos\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative writing, video games and &#8216;Slender man&#8217;: Nostalgia podcast with Vivian Asimos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7292075-vivian-asimos\">latest episode<\/a> of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks to Vivian Asimos.<\/p>\n<p>Vivian recently achieved her PhD on theology and virtual storytelling at Durham with Douglas Davies (next week&#8217;s guest), with \u2018Slender Man\u2019 (a fictional monster created on an internet forum) as her main case study. The pair discuss blurring the line in horror between fiction and reality.<\/p>\n<p>She and Chris go on to discuss video games; Florida; wanting to be a creative writer; &#8216;stumbling into&#8217; Religious Studies; playing the piano; funk; listening to the charts on the way to church; &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217;; working in a food bank and on President Obama&#8217;s re-election campaign; the comfort of not belonging; what her childhood version of herself would expect she would be doing now; and using the past as a learning experience for future situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/06\/19\/nostalgia-podcast-asimos\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10839,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions\/10839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}