{"id":31,"date":"2026-02-04T20:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totesa.website\/student\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:10:28","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hi, I\u2019m Tamara Barnes. I\u2019m in the Lifespan and Digital Communications Master\u2019s program. This is my second Master\u2019s, actually! I\u2019ve always loved communicating and finding different ways to share ideas, and my goal is to become a professor in the Communication Department eventually.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>I work as an Academic Advisor in the College of Sciences at ODU, and I\u2019ve been here for 20 years this month. On top of that, I also work part-time at Bath &amp; Body Works. I have two amazing daughters and am a big sports fan of football, basketball, baseball\u2026 Go Birds! The Phillies and The Celtics.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40642\/2026\/02\/tam-2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"956\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40642\/2026\/02\/tam-2023-956x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40642\/2026\/02\/tam-2023-956x1024.jpg 956w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40642\/2026\/02\/tam-2023-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40642\/2026\/02\/tam-2023-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40642\/2026\/02\/tam-2023.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I\u2019m Tamara Barnes. I\u2019m in the Lifespan and Digital Communications Master\u2019s program. This is my second Master\u2019s, actually! I\u2019ve always loved communicating and finding different ways to share ideas, and my goal is to become a professor in the Communication Department eventually. I work as an Academic Advisor in the College of Sciences at&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32058,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tamarabarnessportjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}