{"id":573887986,"date":"2015-05-08T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887986"},"modified":"2015-05-17T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T22:27:45","slug":"last-day-of-class-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/last-day-of-class-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Last day of class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last two classes of the term today. I gave a quiz consisting of when their finals were due and so on, the traditional end-of-term easy few points. I gave my not-at-all famous end-of-term speech. The brain is like any other muscle, I say, and you must use it. In our case, write. Write for publication. Write for yourself. Just write. Writers write. <\/p>\n<p>There are a few other points in that speech. Thank you for your patience, I hope you&#8217;ve learned as much as I have. (I always learn a lot, even as the person leading the room.) Deadlines matter, I remind them. And I remind them again that it is OK to be passionate about where their interests are taking them, and so on. <\/p>\n<p>In the second class a student pulled up Boys II Men and I tried to hit the back post of the song with the speech. <\/p>\n<p>I forgot about the last chorus and missed the post.<\/p>\n<p>But the speech is good. <\/p>\n<p>Afterward, as I was wrapping up still more grading and various on-campus errands I ran into one of our students who is leaving us at the end of this term. He was there with his father. The student gave me a hug and introduced me to his dad. That&#8217;s not a bad way to wrap up classes. <\/p>\n<p>And I got home just in time to shoot this from the car, hustling as I was to the ballgame. There&#8217;s nothing quite so nice as a good sunset on the plain. This blurry, out of the car window, cell phone shot isn&#8217;t representative of that, but the feeling of being home can&#8217;t be described in words or pictures anyway: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may15\/may13.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At baseball, it was time for rally sunglasses. Almost everyone in our section participated:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may15\/may14.jpg\" alt=\"rally\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Shame the rally sunglasses didn&#8217;t work. Ah well. Get &#8217;em tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last two classes of the term today. I gave a quiz consisting of when their finals were due and so on, the traditional end-of-term easy few points. I gave my not-at-all famous end-of-term speech. The brain is like any other muscle, I say, and you must use it. In our case, write. Write for publication. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,42,14,22,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-baseball","category-friday","category-friends","category-photo","category-samford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887986","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887987,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887986\/revisions\/573887987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}