{"id":2041,"date":"2004-02-04T16:43:48","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/04\/16-teaching-days-to-great-experiment\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T16:43:48","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T20:43:48","slug":"16-teaching-days-to-great-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/04\/16-teaching-days-to-great-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Teaching Days to Great Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2530'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/3liessm.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"219\" align=\"left\">There are only 16 more teaching days until the Great Experiment.<br \/>\n        Those of you checking our math may have noted that two days ago there were 19<br \/>\n        teaching days left. Seems we had somehow forgotten President&#8217;s Day. Each day<br \/>\n        now with my students is increasingly precious.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the end of<br \/>\n        an era.<\/p>\n<p>Some have asked &quot;What is the Great Experiment?&quot; (Thanks for the inquiry,<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/simplyliveanywhere.com\/\">Al<\/a>, we thought no one would<br \/>\n        ever ask). At this stage just let us say that the Dowbrigade&#8217;s life story<br \/>\n        up to now has been marked by<br \/>\n        longish stretches of more-or-less steady-state  personal stability<br \/>\n        and conventional intellectual achievement, punctuated with wild forays<br \/>\n        into implausible schemes, peripatetic wanderings in exotic and untamed<br \/>\n        territory, and wacky adventures which strain the limits of credulity<br \/>\n        and turn gray a mother&#8217;s hair.<\/p>\n<p>We feel such a period coming on. A complex and compelling three stage<br \/>\n        plan is forming like a djinni from swirling desert dust, with machinations<br \/>\n        within variations within contingencies. The die is cast, the dice are<br \/>\n        thrown. Tickets have been bought. The planets have started to realign.&nbsp; Stay<br \/>\n        tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only 16 more teaching days until the Great Experiment. Those of you checking our math may have noted that two days ago there were 19 teaching days left. Seems we had somehow forgotten President&#8217;s Day. Each day now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/04\/16-teaching-days-to-great-experiment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}