{"id":5434,"date":"2018-07-24T07:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2018-07-24T07:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:12:56","slug":"3300-essay-contest-food-and-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/3300-essay-contest-food-and-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"$3,300 Essay Contest: Food and the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hektoen International, the journal of medical humanities, is currently hosting a summer essay contest. The theme: food and the body.<\/p>\n<p>The contest has a grand prize of $2,500, as well as a runner-up prize of $800.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to enter is September 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to the contest guidelines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We invite you to participate in the\u00a0<em>Hektoen International Summer Essay Contest<\/em> on the theme of <strong>Food and the Body<\/strong>. Please submit essays about food and drink as related to health and the body, using the lens of the humanities. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to: the history of food, famine, or drought in ancient or contemporary societies; food and body image as portrayed in art and literature; the ethics of healthcare pertaining to issues of diet and weight; or cultural perspectives on food, the body, and health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The essays are limited to 1,600 words. The contest is open to writers around the world, 18 and older.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, <a href=\"http:\/\/hekint.org\/2018\/05\/30\/summer-essay-contest\/\">read the contest page here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hektoen International, the journal of medical humanities, is currently hosting a summer essay contest. The theme: food and the body. The contest has a grand prize of $2,500, as well as a runner-up prize of $800. The deadline to enter is September 14, 2018. According to the contest guidelines: We invite you to participate in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}