{"id":573897675,"date":"2024-12-05T20:40:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T01:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897675"},"modified":"2024-12-30T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:50:32","slug":"a-gleaming-yellow-lovelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/12\/05\/a-gleaming-yellow-lovelight\/","title":{"rendered":"A gleaming yellow lovelight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made it through all of the grading and message sending at probably 3 a.m. this morning. This followed a sensible &#8220;Don&#8217;t stay up too late&#8221; missive, which I dutifully acknowledged and then ignored, because there is copy editing to do!<\/p>\n<p>Which was great because soon after a student helpfully sent me a note explaining that one of the links I shared was busted. Stupid hyphen. (New band name! Called it first!)<\/p>\n<p>Check your work, check your work, I have said at least 64 times a year to students for the last 18 years. And the one time I didn&#8217;t check my work, because it was late &#8230; I 404ed someone. Just great.<\/p>\n<p>I am mortified.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the link got fixed this morning. Other emails will come and go and I will do my best with them all, and hopefully the instructions and advice I offered my classes will be useful and well received and acted upon in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great Christmas tree! <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec04.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No, there is not an angle you can shoot this from to not get a building of some sort in a background, somewhere. You can make the complete circle, 360 degrees, and no one has figured out a place to put this with a clear backdrop, or at least an iconic one, for the Insta.<\/p>\n<p>The foreground matters more, anyway. Look who&#8217;s in that ornament!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec05.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I look forard to smiles like that. Ornament smiles are great smiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made it through all of the grading and message sending at probably 3 a.m. this morning. This followed a sensible &#8220;Don&#8217;t stay up too late&#8221; missive, which I dutifully acknowledged and then ignored, because there is copy editing to do! Which was great because soon after a student helpfully sent me a note explaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-photo","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897675","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=573897675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897677,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897675\/revisions\/573897677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}