{"id":681,"date":"2023-10-17T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/?p=681"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:01:49","slug":"trauma-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/2023\/10\/17\/trauma-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma &amp; Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When reading both the Sarnecki and Gentry &amp; Alderman articles, I kept thinking about how a powerful way to tattoo trauma would be through song lyrics. I know a lot of people use song lyrics to get them through challenging times, and so I figured this would be a way people would want to express their growth in getting through those challenges. So I searched some examples of this and found multiple people who tattooed song lyrics on themselves, and they all had a moving story associated with it. I think it&#8217;s really cool how other people can see those song lyrics and connect to them because they know them and yet have a totally different experience with them. Songs hold a strong memory trace involving everything a person was feeling or going through when they listened to that song, and so song lyric tattoos are a beautiful way to tell that story and embody that resilience.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reading both the Sarnecki and Gentry &amp; Alderman articles, I kept thinking about how a powerful way to tattoo trauma would be through song lyrics. I know a lot of people use song lyrics to get them through challenging times, and so I figured this would be a way people would want to express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}