{"id":573886304,"date":"2014-05-08T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573886304"},"modified":"2014-05-09T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T22:12:09","slug":"the-indoor-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/05\/08\/the-indoor-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"The indoor picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cards and letters in the mail &#8212; with Charlton Heston stamps, mind you. Old newspapers recycled. The newsroom is clean(er). My office is clean(er). Next week&#8217;s student work schedule has been set. Locks have been changed. Some things have been graded. It was a productive day. <\/p>\n<p>And, why yes, I would like a piece of pie, good sir. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may14\/may13.jpg\" alt=\"Pie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This was at the department picnic, which is now held indoors after a few blistering thunderstorms in previous years. This should have been held last week &#8212; also indoors, but there was enough bad weather to close campus, and so here we are, dining in a classroom. Barbecue. Pie. And we&#8217;re giving out awards and scholarships and honors to students who are among the highest GPAs on campus. We&#8217;re presenting items to people who are student-leaders and acknowledging the honors they&#8217;ve been getting all year. <\/p>\n<p>There is a program and about two dozen of the names inside of it are people I&#8217;ve had in class or worked with on some media project or another. All of that just means I&#8217;m lucky to work with talented young people. <\/p>\n<p>And, at the end of the year, I get pie. And more grading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cards and letters in the mail &#8212; with Charlton Heston stamps, mind you. Old newspapers recycled. The newsroom is clean(er). My office is clean(er). Next week&#8217;s student work schedule has been set. Locks have been changed. Some things have been graded. It was a productive day. And, why yes, I would like a piece of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573886304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-samford","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886304","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=573886304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573886305,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573886304\/revisions\/573886305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573886304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573886304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573886304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}