{"id":573897956,"date":"2025-05-05T20:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897956"},"modified":"2025-05-17T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:13:29","slug":"now-we-come-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/now-we-come-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Now we come to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final papers are in for my international media class. I&#8217;m trying to get ahead of them so I can stay ahead of my other grading. While one class is finished, another has a tight turnaround on some important work. This week, from my perspective then, is about giving good feedback in a timely manner, so that it is useful to the students.<\/p>\n<p>So this is brief. More brief than normal. (You&#8217;re welcome?)<\/p>\n<p>Just riding around the neighborhood on Saturday, in reality is about six neighborhoods, gave me an easy bit of exercise, and a brief glimpse of the sheep and one of their faithful companions.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may25\/may07.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes that dog is sleeping as I go back. Occasionally I cruise through there and he&#8217;s working. Every now and again he races me &#8212; usually he lets me win. But, today, they were all huddled together and something behind me caught his interest.<\/p>\n<p>We recently discovered the local creamery. My lovely bride says I found it, but I have absolutely no recollection of that. They have three flavors of custard, and last night, a night that was sticky and warm enough to make it quickly look like a potential drippy mess, I tried the creamsicle. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may25\/may08.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They only accept cash. And while I respect their stance on traditionalism at this creamery, that will limit my abilities to visit there. Who has cash? Probably this is a good thing. It is only four miles away, and I can&#8217;t always be lucky about eating it before it gets everywhere. <\/p>\n<p>The local bike shop does a ride to the creamery in the earliest part of the summer. It&#8217;s a neighborhood thing, and we&#8217;ll join in. Because there is ice cream. <\/p>\n<p>But, first, there is grading. So let me get back to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final papers are in for my international media class. I&#8217;m trying to get ahead of them so I can stay ahead of my other grading. While one class is finished, another has a tight turnaround on some important work. This week, from my perspective then, is about giving good feedback in a timely manner, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,40,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-cycling","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573897956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897957,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897956\/revisions\/573897957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}