{"id":573889422,"date":"2017-02-09T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T05:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889422"},"modified":"2017-02-13T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:28:10","slug":"whats-in-the-middle-who-cares-there-was-a-cookie-at-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/whats-in-the-middle-who-cares-there-was-a-cookie-at-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in the middle? Eh, there was a cookie at the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursdays &#8230; where do they go? I&#8217;m really not sure. They start here and end there and stuff surely happens in between, but a lot in the middle doesn&#8217;t seem to stand out for some reason. Strange.<\/p>\n<p>On the one-block walk from the parking deck to the office this morning, I saw this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb17\/feb13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A video version of this is now the background video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\" target=\"_blank\">my home page<\/a>. See it, as no one says, before the snow melts. Because who knows what will replace that video, or when. I&#8217;m trying to keep them somewhat topical, and weather is as good an indicator of that as anything else. And right now the weather is changing a bit. Snow one day, almost spring the next, and so on. All of that is better than being in the single digits, so don&#8217;t take it as a complaint. But if we hit, and stayed, in the 60s that wouldn&#8217;t be so bad, either. <\/p>\n<p>Do you like those videos? I do. They&#8217;re a lot of fun and easy to make. There&#8217;s some trick to quality I need to resolve, but we&#8217;ll get there. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t spend anytime in the television studio, as I do a few days a week. The show I watch was being produced at the basketball coliseum, where the good guys lost a rivalry game. Here&#8217;s the show to tell you all about it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yWm7doezydw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, instead, I went to this panel:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TONIGHT, 6:30pm, Franklin Hall: Join our workshop and discussion on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fakenews?src=hash\">#fakenews<\/a> vs real news &amp; get tools to build your media literacy skills <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e6WQ7VzOum\">pic.twitter.com\/e6WQ7VzOum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IU Provost (@IUBProvost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUBProvost\/status\/829702542632296449\">February 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Because it seemed like the sort of thing I&#8217;d be interested in, right?<\/p>\n<p>Also, when I got there, I saw that they had cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursdays &#8230; where do they go? I&#8217;m really not sure. They start here and end there and stuff surely happens in between, but a lot in the middle doesn&#8217;t seem to stand out for some reason. Strange. On the one-block walk from the parking deck to the office this morning, I saw this: A video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,10,9,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-photo","category-site","category-thursday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889422","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=573889422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889428,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889422\/revisions\/573889428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}