{"id":302,"date":"2012-12-10T16:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=302"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:30:30","slug":"van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/12\/10\/van-gogh\/","title":{"rendered":"van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed very sick over the weekend.\u00a0 Saturday was spent in bed watching Science Fiction movies.\u00a0 Sunday, I dragged myself to church to teach a class on the Nativity then play in the band.\u00a0 I pretty much went straight back to bed after that (watching the 49ers win in spectacular fashion!).\u00a0 This morning, I felt a bit better, which is fortunate because I had a substitute job.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I taught a \u201ccollege style\u201d class on van Gogh (powerpoint mixed with group discussion) to a middle school art class (four periods worth, plus a class of \u201cyear book\u201d).\u00a0 The teacher had asked me to do this ahead of time to help introduce her next unit: painting.\u00a0 And depending on how her jury duty goes next week, I could wind up teaching the class some or all of next week.\u00a0 By the last class of the day, my voice was gone from talking, but I did have enough stamina to make it through the day.\u00a0 Yeah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed very sick over the weekend.\u00a0 Saturday was spent in bed watching Science Fiction movies.\u00a0 Sunday, I dragged myself to church to teach a class on the Nativity then play in the band.\u00a0 I pretty much went straight back &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/12\/10\/van-gogh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}