{"id":5191,"date":"2018-08-25T22:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T04:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2018-08-25T22:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T04:14:37","slug":"modern-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/08\/25\/modern-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It&rsquo;s late at night. I had a cold brewed coffee in the late afternoon as I graded papers. It was after 3:00. Caffeine after 3:00: not a good idea, he says, with&nbsp;<\/em><i>nary a wink of sleep coming over him.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>It&rsquo;s an hour before midnight. The full moon is rising and marching with Mars across the sky. A hot wind in blowing in the parched leaves of the Walnut, Ash and Oak trees.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&rsquo;m wide awake. So I might as well tell you a story&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I taped numbers to the desks at school. I did this to better connect the faces and names of my 150 students. Black numbers hand-drafted on white squares of paper with a blue border. (The border was a flourish that I had added on a whim, because I have a wonderful big-brush pastel blue marker.)<\/p>\n<p>I put white card stock underneath the white squares when I drew the blue border around the black numbers.&nbsp;And after brushing four borders on 30 squares, the card stock was a randomish mishmash of pastel blue lines and dots and miscellaneously shaped marks where the brush had marked beyond the edges.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of sixth period, I put the marked up card stock under the document camera. The image projected on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Here is my modern art for the day,&rdquo; I said.<\/p>\n<p>There was momentary silence, and then one of the boys in the room said, &ldquo;It speaks to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>That is my story. The moon has advanced beyond the periphery of the canopy of the Walnut tree. The caffeine is still speaking. It&rsquo;s going to be a long night.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s late at night. I had a cold brewed coffee in the late afternoon as I graded papers. It was after 3:00. Caffeine after 3:00: not a good idea, he says, with&nbsp;nary a wink of sleep coming over him. It&rsquo;s an hour before midnight. The full moon is rising and marching with Mars across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5193,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}