{"id":8980,"date":"2024-08-21T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/?page_id=8980"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:57:52","slug":"samadhi-chandrasena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/students\/2024-2\/cs488\/samadhi-chandrasena\/","title":{"rendered":"Samadhi Chandrasena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Samadhi Chandrasena, and I am a Computer Science major and Music minor. 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