{"id":573882249,"date":"2011-09-29T22:13:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T03:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882249"},"modified":"2011-10-02T21:01:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T02:01:50","slug":"random-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/random-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Random blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hit the gym, hit the weights, hoping they would not hit back. Sometimes they do, and that&#8217;s embarrassing if there are a lot of serious gym types around.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I timed it right and visited during amateur hour. No one noticed my struggles, for they were busy overcoming their own struggles, or bypassing them altogether. I like to think of that as that nice feeling of topping a hill, knowing you&#8217;ve reached that little summit and realizing you still have a little more in you. That&#8217;s a nice little feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I could use one of those in the gym.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talked about news<\/strong> stories in progress today. Prepared a lecture (with musical accompaniment by Wilco, so there&#8217;s a big guitar solo midway through) about story structure. Also, it proved a little bit long, which is more welcome from Wilco than from a lecture, but the more you know, right?<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite parts of class, aside from giving spelling quizzes that the students all look forward to, is when I let them go for the day. Someone will stick around to chat for a minute. It&#8217;s a nice moment to get away from the professor-student, lecture and lab dynamic and get to know people a tiny bit. I like hearing stories.<\/p>\n<p>Like this one:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept11\/sept111.jpg\" alt=\"traffic\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>How many family memories are wrapped up in that chifferobe drawer?  That&#8217;s a beautiful piece and it really stands out in the daylight. Is it going from one house to another? Did it just get refinished? Sold?<\/p>\n<p>It made me think of similar pieces of in my own family, where they are popular mementoes. Some dates back generations. Easy to see why. Suppose that piece has a mirror inside. How many days did some old aunt or grandmother pull out a shirt and glance into that reflection?<\/p>\n<p>No wonder someone wants to keep that nice piece of furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the random pieces of blocks stories can be built around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit the gym, hit the weights, hoping they would not hit back. Sometimes they do, and that&#8217;s embarrassing if there are a lot of serious gym types around. Fortunately I timed it right and visited during amateur hour. No one noticed my struggles, for they were busy overcoming their own struggles, or bypassing them altogether. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573882249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-photo","category-samford","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573882249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573882250,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882249\/revisions\/573882250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573882249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573882249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573882249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}