{"id":587,"date":"2011-04-11T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=587"},"modified":"2011-04-11T21:52:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:52:24","slug":"npm-11-2b-or-not-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2011\/04\/11\/npm-11-2b-or-not-2b\/","title":{"rendered":"NPM 11: 2B, or not 2B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2B<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>or not 2B<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_597\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/19627189@N06\/2590240739\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"size-full wp-image-597 \" title=\"pencilParsley_by_bourgeoisbee_flickr_MOD2\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/pencilParsley_by_bourgeoisbee_flickr_MOD2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pencilParsley_by_bourgeoisbee_flickr (CC) cropped<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That is the question.<\/p>\n<p>I read today on Twitter,<br \/>\nof a tweep who wrote a letter.<br \/>\nAn annual event,<br \/>\nTo excuse his kid from tests.<\/p>\n<p>The kind you have to bubble,<br \/>\nAn assessment kind of trouble.<br \/>\nThat so clearly lead to double-<br \/>\n-teaching. Learning, and For Tests.<\/p>\n<p>If you throw it out the window,<br \/>\nWhere will all the students now go?<br \/>\nOn to College or the workplace,<br \/>\nWithout G-MAT kinds of stress?<\/p>\n<p>So the pencil flies instead, so.<br \/>\nOver desk and out the window.<br \/>\nTo nestle &#8216;mongst the green-ry.<br \/>\nNow prepare for &#8220;off-to-school&#8221; go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<em>Have a nice day! Do you use 2B or HB or 2H ?<\/em><br \/>\nby aforgrave. April 11th, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Poetry Month, Day 11<\/strong><br \/>\nFind\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/budtheteacher\/\">@budtheteacher<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/budtheteacher.com\/blog\/\">daily NPM prompts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2B or not 2B That is the question. I read today on Twitter, of a tweep who wrote a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-koans-of-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UvWF-9t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}