{"id":235460,"date":"2026-04-17T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235460\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:33:11","slug":"meet-the-columnist-charley-babb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235460\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Columnist: Charley Babb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined The Miami Student in my first semester of sophomore year, mostly because I wanted to see what it was like, and I quickly found myself gravitating towards the Opinion section. I\u2019ve never had much experience in journalism or opinion writing, and this seemed to be a good way to try it out. I\u2019ve been a writer for years, but this was a new format and a new experience for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I decided to try it out.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy writing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamistudent.net\/staff\/charley-babb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transit, space exploration and politics<\/a>. I like to analyze the way they intersect and how each can be improved and changed for the better, which is ironic because I\u2019m from an area that has never had much of any of those things. I\u2019m from Wyoming, Ohio, a small suburban town north of Cincinnati. It\u2019s a decent place, but not a lot goes on.<\/p>\n<p>On campus, outside of TMS itself, my main activity is the Miami Medieval Club. I love meeting up with my friends and getting to sword fight each other for a few hours every week. It\u2019s a lot of fun and a great way to burn off energy.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t write a ton for the paper, but when I do, it\u2019s something I\u2019m very passionate about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamistudent.net\/article\/2026\/04\/mailto:babbce@miamioh.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">babbce@miamioh.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I joined The Miami Student in my first semester of sophomore year, mostly because I wanted to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-235460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}