{"id":499,"date":"2008-07-16T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2008\/07\/16\/499\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T14:17:09","slug":"499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2008\/07\/16\/499\/","title":{"rendered":"kids connect with ABRAHAM_OBAMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2008\/07\/abrahamobamacolorsresized.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2008\/07\/abrahamobamadayoneresized.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2008\/07\/word-to-abraham.jpg' alt='word-to-abraham.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>From: Leo Whelan<\/p>\n<p>The kids have been mobilized,<br \/>\nand they are starting to get pretty excited.<br \/>\nSo far I&#8217;ve brought all my older groups (about 80 kids) to see the<br \/>\nwall , talk about it, and start creating their own colored versions.<br \/>\nCheck out the pic of our first batch.  Much more to come: I estimate<br \/>\nthat if I can get 130-140 pages colored back at the art room &#8211; in the<br \/>\nnext round mixing paint &#8211; we&#8217;ll be able to create a block the size of<br \/>\none of the panels.  Could alternatively be made into a  book version<br \/>\nwith the images accompanied by statements, collage, other types of<br \/>\nreworked versions (digital)&#8230; lots of potential directions.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s most exciting to me is this contagious feeling of empowerment<br \/>\nthat is growing as the kids realize the connection between making an<br \/>\nartistic statement and becoming involved in the political process.<br \/>\nMost of them are too cool to admit it yet (at least to me).<br \/>\nMore pics and maybe video to come.<\/p>\n<p>Will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Leo Whelan The kids have been mobilized, and they are starting to get pretty excited. So far I&#8217;ve brought all my older groups (about 80 kids) to see the wall , talk about it, and start creating their own colored versions. Check out the pic of our first batch. Much more to come: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","p1","y2008","m07","d16","h03"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}