{"id":12199,"date":"2019-06-28T20:28:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T00:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=12199"},"modified":"2019-08-11T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T16:52:17","slug":"clearing-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2019\/06\/28\/clearing-the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Clearing-the-Board3.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12200\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;Clearing the Board,&#8221; animated GIF by @aforgrave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For a number of years now, students have spontaneously brought me little pieces of art that they have made for me, and I have taken to posting them on the bulletin board behind my desk.<\/p>\n<p>Each June, as I undertake the task of shutting down the classroom for the summer, I remove the bits of art in preparation for the next year.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>This year, however, having reached my retirement with the board, I paused before starting to remove the art, and decided that I needed to capture the experience. The GIF above is the result. \u00a0<br \/><br \/>This is also the first piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\"><strong>de\u2022tri\u2022tus art<\/strong><\/a> that I have posted here after close to two years. As of today, I&#8217;m starting to remedy that <a href=\"https:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/black-sabbath-what-is-browning-to-bava\/\">Art Lack<\/a>\u00a0(as originated and perfected by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgroom\/\">@JimGroom<\/a>).\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a number of years now, students have spontaneously brought me little pieces of art that they have made&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\"Clearing the Board,\" a new post on de\u2022tri\u2022tus, in which an end-of-school ritual is captured for posterity. #retirement","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,168,12],"tags":[182,181,218,1310,1311],"class_list":["post-12199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animated-gif-ds106assignments","category-ds106reflections","category-thoughts","tag-jim-groom","tag-jimgroom","tag-animatedgif","tag-art-lack","tag-bulletin-board"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Clearing-the-Board3.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UvWF-3aL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12219,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions\/12219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}