{"id":268,"date":"2026-03-16T03:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:48:30","slug":"wisconsin-idea-journey-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/?page_id=268","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Idea Journey book"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54553707671_9a1a29069c_o-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"15 May, 2025.\n\nMilwaukee\u2019s Menomonee River serves as a backdrop as Jessie Stovall, an assistant professor in African American Studies, holds up the \u201cForest + River&quot; journey book, an informative collection of essays, maps, daily itineraries, and other materials that the Wisconsin Idea Seminar participants carried on their 5-day experience. The cover features \u201cThreaded Rivers\u201d a story cloth by Edward Xiong, a UW-Madison undergraduate student and HMoob Paj Ntaub artist, that was inspired by Xiong\u2019s formative memories of foraging with his family in forested areas outside Milwaukee where he grew up. (Photo by Catherine Reiland\/UW-Madison)\" class=\"wp-image-270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54553707671_9a1a29069c_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54553707671_9a1a29069c_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54553707671_9a1a29069c_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54553707671_9a1a29069c_o-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54553707671_9a1a29069c_o-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54571106043_7d1a5fe507_o-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"12 May, 2025.\n\nA box of wooden nametags---reusable and when the time ever comes, compostable--organized alphabetically by first name, await distribution at the 2025 Wisconsin Idea Seminar orientation at One Alumni Place in Madison. Participants of the FOREST + RIVER journey would wear the nametags throughout the five-day experience, and many choose to continue affixing the nametag at future campus events and meetings. (Photo by Catherine Reiland \/ UW-Madison)\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54571106043_7d1a5fe507_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54571106043_7d1a5fe507_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54571106043_7d1a5fe507_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54571106043_7d1a5fe507_o-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/54571106043_7d1a5fe507_o-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edwardtxoovxiong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}