{"id":11653,"date":"2021-02-01T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2021-02-01T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:14:52","slug":"bagley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/fineartsalumni\/bagley\/","title":{"rendered":"James J. Bagley &#8217;05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>James J. Bagley graduated in 2005 with a major in theatre and specialization in acting. He is now an attorney who focuses on social security disability and personal injury work. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. How did your URI degree best prepare you for your career path?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;My BFA in acting prepared me to be in the courtroom and was a natural stepping stone into improvised comedy, which I've been doing on and off now for fifteen years. &quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">My BFA in acting prepared me to be in the courtroom and was a natural stepping stone into improvised comedy, which I&#8217;ve been doing on and off now for fifteen years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In your opinion, what is the value of the arts both academically and in the community?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;The arts are what makes life worth living; they connect human beings and evoke strong emotions. The pandemic should have taught us that arts, and artists, are far more valuable than society would have you think. &quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">The arts are what makes life worth living; they connect human beings and evoke strong emotions. The pandemic should have taught us that arts, and artists, are far more valuable than society would have you think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give to current students or to young people thinking of pursuing a Fine Arts degree?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Follow your joy and recognize that in the arts what you have to find is your way of doing it.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Follow your joy and recognize that in the arts what you have to find is your way of doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The arts are what makes life worth living; they connect human beings and evoke strong emotions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":11656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fineartsalumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}