{"id":551,"date":"2004-03-18T21:16:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/03\/18\/art-class\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:37:10","slug":"art-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/03\/18\/art-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Art class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a1170\"><\/a>  Sometime before passing him on to me, my high school art teacher told me that her lover (one of my fellow grade 12 students, an A-1 brat) needed &#8220;to have the shit kicked out of him.&#8221;  Thirty years later I&#8217;m still quite foggy about what exactly she thought <em>I<\/em> might be able to do with him.  But the other day it occured to me that the Hubble treatment, had it been available, would have been just the thing.  Hubble&#8217;s view: be prepared to have the shit kicked out of you, to be scared witless, to be awed and amazed.  Think you&#8217;re a big cheese?  Think again, you insignificant speck of dust living on the equivalent of a planetary amoeba&#8217;s face.  Prepare for the final frontier, prepare for contact.    <a href=\"http:\/\/wires.news.com.au\/special\/mm\/030811-hubble.htm\">Prepare to meet the Art Teacher!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime before passing him on to me, my high school art teacher told me that her lover (one of my fellow grade 12 students, an A-1 brat) needed &#8220;to have the shit kicked out of him.&#8221; Thirty years later I&#8217;m still quite foggy about what exactly she thought I might be able to do with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}