{"id":461,"date":"2006-02-12T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2006-02-12T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T05:09:00","slug":"readwritethink-giving-a-hoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/12\/readwritethink-giving-a-hoot\/","title":{"rendered":"ReadWriteThink: Giving a Hoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwritethink.org\/lessons\/lesson_view.asp?id=930\">Book Report Alternative: A Character\u2019s Letter to the Editor<\/a> is now live! The fun part about this lesson for me was working up the examples. Carl Hiaasen&#8217;s novel <i>Hoot<\/i> is coming out as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hootmovie.com\/\">movie<\/a>; so I used the situations in the novel for my examples. It&#8217;s a natural for the lesson, since Roy (the protagonist) is on a crusade to save the burrowing owls on a plot of land destined to become Mother Paula&#8217;s All-American House of Pancakes.<\/p>\n<p>I also (finally) gave in and brought the new microwave into the kitchen. I bought this thing two summers ago, but I was going to keep using the existing microwave till it died. It&#8217;s still going, but it&#8217;s very slow. Takes longer to get things done than it should. When I moved it, I also found that it&#8217;s much bigger than the new one and it&#8217;s heavy as lead. I&#8217;m not at all sure how I&#8217;m going to get it out of the kitchen without hurting my back. I need a boyfriend long enough to tote things. Sigh. The positive side: wow is a well-working microwave useful. For instance, I&#8217;m used to microwave popcorn  popping maybe, on a lucky day, 1\/2 of the kernels. Enter the new microwave! There wasn&#8217;t one unpopped kernel! Now I just need to finish cleaning and rearranging stuff. I want to get the toaster oven out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Report Alternative: A Character\u2019s Letter to the Editor is now live! The fun part about this lesson for me was working up the examples. Carl Hiaasen&#8217;s novel Hoot is coming out as a movie; so I used the situations in the novel for my examples. It&#8217;s a natural for the lesson, since Roy (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readwritethink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}