{"id":729,"date":"2023-05-13T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/?p=729"},"modified":"2023-05-13T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:44:25","slug":"from-interview-to-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/2023\/05\/13\/from-interview-to-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"From Interview to Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/files\/2023\/05\/south-korea-naju-si-tree-spring.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-730\" width=\"669\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/files\/2023\/05\/south-korea-naju-si-tree-spring.jpeg 910w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/files\/2023\/05\/south-korea-naju-si-tree-spring-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/files\/2023\/05\/south-korea-naju-si-tree-spring-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This oral history has been a very valuable experience for me in terms of what I have gained education-wise, as well as emotionally. With regards to educational value, this assignment was unlike anything I have ever done for another class, and I think that it ended up being a unique experience.<br>I was surprisingly challenged by the more formal aspects of the interview process, I found it difficult to approach certain subjects due to my relationship with my interviewee. I wanted to make sure that my interviewee felt comfortable discussing such topics, so I did have a substantial conversation with him about it. Going into this project, I knew that my father would be a strong candidate for an interviewee. Beyond my own desires to learn more about his past and insights, he tends to put a lot of thought into what he says and how he says it, so I also wanted to make sure to craft questions that would allow him to incorporate that thoughtfulness.<br>I had never thought very specifically about how his father\u2019s death impacted him, just that it was something that caused him to show a rare emotional side of himself. After recording this interview and debriefing with him about what we had talked about, I realized that I now had this key piece of information which was the root of such a big part of his life.<br>During the entire process of this oral history, from the pre-interview preparation to this final report, I have consistently felt as though all my work has helped me gain something. Rather than responding to a prompt and turning in a paper, each piece of this project has felt fulfilling in some way. I learned a great deal about my father, and my perceptions of him have been further informed, I am very grateful to have had this opportunity to deepen my understanding of his life and his character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Elodie Koo on her oral history with Paul Koo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This oral history has been a very valuable experience for me in terms of what I have gained education-wise, as well as emotionally. With regards to educational value, this assignment was unlike anything I have ever done for another class, and I think that it ended up being a unique experience.I was surprisingly challenged by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3838],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}