{"id":573889476,"date":"2016-07-06T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T03:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889476"},"modified":"2017-02-26T22:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:36:24","slug":"look-at-this-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/look-at-this-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at this place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it is July, and hot. Even the statue of Ernie Pyle is sweating:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Media School, where I live and work, is about to be moving. That&#8217;s the culmination of a three-plus year project, and since I&#8217;m new and it is the summer, there&#8217;s not a lot for me to do yet. A little HR ere, a little paperwork there. And I&#8217;m giving myself tours, so I went by to say hello to Ernie today.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t yet know what goes on in this building:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This used to be a dorm. Now it is an administrative building. I hear it is going to become a dorm again:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And this is a side of one of the intramural gyms, Wildermuth. It used to be where the men&#8217;s basketball team played during the middle of the 20th century. It sat 10,000 people. Now there are 10 courts, a gym, a pool, locker rooms and classes in there:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The current facility, Assembly Hall, is undergoing a renovation right now ahead of next season. It will seat more than 17,000.<\/p>\n<p>I walked through one of the international studies buildings:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It seems that every physical actor and voice actor that has ever played Vader was British, American, Canadian. But we&#8217;ll allow it on the basis of cleverness. And the idea that Polish might be a challenging language to study for most Americans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it is July, and hot. Even the statue of Ernie Pyle is sweating: The Media School, where I live and work, is about to be moving. That&#8217;s the culmination of a three-plus year project, and since I&#8217;m new and it is the summer, there&#8217;s not a lot for me to do yet. A little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iu","category-photo","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889476","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=573889476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889477,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889476\/revisions\/573889477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}