{"id":2713,"date":"2023-02-08T00:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2023-02-08T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:55:12","slug":"jamal-gabobe-the-wordsmith-news-information-university-of-washington-tacoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/jamal-gabobe-the-wordsmith-news-information-university-of-washington-tacoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamal Gabobe: The Wordsmith, News &amp; Information, University of Washington Tacoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">THE WORDSMITH<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"created\">January 31, 2023<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/www.tacoma.uw.edu\/news\/wordsmith\" data-a2a-title=\"The Wordsmith\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tacoma.uw.edu%2Fnews%2Fwordsmith&amp;title=The%20Wordsmith\"><span class=\"a2a_label a2a_localize\" data-a2a-localize=\"inner,Share\">Share<\/span><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tacoma.uw.edu\/#facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"a2a_label\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tacoma.uw.edu\/#twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"a2a_label\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tacoma.uw.edu\/#email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"a2a_label\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-news-story-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>When he&#8217;s not working in the library, staff member Jamal Gabobe is busy writing and publishing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-sections field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<div id=\"permalink-130847\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--section paragraph--view-mode--default section-theme-light-theme section-header-style-purple-dominant has-bg-color light-theme hide-bg-rain consistent-row-height\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section-components field-type-entity-reference-revisions field-label-hidden field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item\">\n<div id=\"permalink-130846\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--grid-1 paragraph--view-mode--default limit-width paragraph--grid\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-grid-1-items field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden paragraph--grid field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<div id=\"permalink-130845\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p class=\"Body\">&#8220;I think my passion for writing was born from my cultural background to some extent,&#8221; says UW Tacoma staff member <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.tacoma.uw.edu\/employee\/jamali\">Jamal Gabobe<\/a>. &#8220;Also, part of me always wanted to explore my need for self-expression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tacoma.uw.edu\/news\/wordsmith\"><em><strong>Continue reading&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WORDSMITH January 31, 2023 ShareFacebookTwitterEmail When he&#8217;s not working in the library, staff member Jamal Gabobe is busy writing and publishing. &#8220;I think my passion for writing was born from my cultural background to some extent,&#8221; says UW Tacoma staff member Jamal Gabobe. &#8220;Also, part of me always wanted to explore my need for<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/jamal-gabobe-the-wordsmith-news-information-university-of-washington-tacoma\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":2714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jamal Gabobe: The Wordsmith, News &amp; 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