{"id":732,"date":"2008-01-03T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:49:35","slug":"a-snowball-perched-on-a-hilltop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"A snowball perched on a hilltop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a confluence of quite disparate influences provokes a blog posting that bursts out into a new vector of interest and attention. One never knows when that&#8217;s going to strike, and sometimes it comes to nothing: having stricken, moves on. At the moment, the bits that seem to be shouldering their way to the fore are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_9.html#atran\">Scott Atran&#8217;s rumination on fictive kinship<\/a> (perhaps you have to be an anthropologist to jump at a title with &#8216;fictive kinship&#8217; in it, but read on&#8230;)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2008\/01\/hbc-90002022\">Scott Horton&#8217;s quoting of Robert Frost&#8217;s &#8220;Mending Wall&#8221;<\/a> at harpers.org (dunno if you have to be a Subscriber to see it, but if so the text is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mending_Wall\">here<\/a>), which is known to one and all as a clich&eacute; [&#8220;Good fences make good neighbors&#8217;], but not generally attended for its other Messages, or for its geological and New England landscape Verities\n<li>the delicious richness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=555\">Gardner Campbell&#8217;s working toward the coming term<\/a>, and the wonderful prospect afforded by his vow to blog daily. His use of sound clips is, well, exemplary, and his choice of quotations goes unerringly to <i>my<\/i> heart. I mean, jeez, who else juxtaposes Jerome Bruner<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>A curriculum is more for teachers than it is for pupils. If it cannot change, move, perturb, inform teachers, it will have no effect on those whom they teach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> and Paul Greenglass<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;freedom, improvisation, the moment, the&#8230; the thing that happens in front of your camera that you didn&#8217;t predict&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These seem to be parts of a bigger Something that&#8217;s taking shape in my mind. Stay tuned while I figure this out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a confluence of quite disparate influences provokes a blog posting that bursts out into a new vector of interest and attention. One never knows when that&#8217;s going to strike, and sometimes it comes to nothing: having stricken, moves on. At the moment, the bits that seem to be shouldering their way to the fore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}