{"id":6,"date":"2005-06-29T03:34:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T07:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/06\/29\/thinking-about-the-third-grade\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:28:03","slug":"thinking-about-the-third-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/06\/29\/thinking-about-the-third-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About the Third Grade."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a15\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Grant assigned her third grade reading class to design a children&#8217;s book. I tried my hand at an adaptation and extension of <em>Goldylocks and the Three Bears<\/em> <em>sans<\/em> Goldylocks. My story detailed a day before that intrusive harlot stepped foot through their door: the day they visited the amusement park. Baby Bear got lost in the maze but was rescued eventually by his parents. They may have celebrated with a hot dog, but my memory is a bit fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p>The individual pages of each book were collected, lamenated, and returned. One girl, Elizabeth by name, received special recognition, however. She had written about a child&#8217;s visit to the sea shore. In her text she chronicled his litoral discoveries: a shell, perhaps some driftwood, and a feather. Mrs. Grant&#8217;s praise inspired quiet jealousy within me.<\/p>\n<p>Years later (over a decade later, in fact) Elizabeth confided in me &#8212; her story was plagerized. And still I harbor a secret jealousy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Grant assigned her third grade reading class to design a children&#8217;s book. I tried my hand at an adaptation and extension of Goldylocks and the Three Bears sans Goldylocks. My story detailed a day before that intrusive harlot stepped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/06\/29\/thinking-about-the-third-grade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}