{"id":573897696,"date":"2024-12-17T22:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897696"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T19:06:06","slug":"the-grading-is-going-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/12\/17\/the-grading-is-going-well\/","title":{"rendered":"The grading is going well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my classes are now completed! Except for the grading, which I am doing now. At midnight the submission window closed, and students had a final essay exam and a critical study of a social media platform to get in before that deadline. Now I&#8217;m just working my way through three dozen essays and as many audits. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s roughly 300-plus pages of material to read through this week, plus two other classes that will continue for one more week beyond. So, guess what! This is another light week!<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, the grass is still bright and green in mid-December, and in the middle of a serious drought! <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec21.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I went outside just to take that photo. I&#8217;d gone downstairs for a late lunch, looked out the southwestern facing window and saw that wonderfully verdant view.<\/p>\n<p>While I was out there, this flew overhead.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec22.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Those aren&#8217;t drones. That&#8217;s maneuvers! These aren&#8217;t drones, either.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec24\/dec23.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This joke will never not be funny. <\/p>\n<p>Back to work, then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my classes are now completed! Except for the grading, which I am doing now. At midnight the submission window closed, and students had a final essay exam and a critical study of a social media platform to get in before that deadline. Now I&#8217;m just working my way through three dozen essays and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,101,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-rowan","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897696","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=573897696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897697,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897696\/revisions\/573897697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}