{"id":2576,"date":"2012-05-31T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/05\/too-cool-for-school.html"},"modified":"2012-05-31T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:49:00","slug":"too-cool-for-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/05\/too-cool-for-school.html","title":{"rendered":"Too cool for school"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So my oldest had an AP History project tonight.\u00a0 The class divided into groups and had to produce a movie \u2013 that\u2019s right, a movie \u2013 that focused on some \u2018what if\u2019 scenario.\u00a0 Now between you, me, and the grandfather clock, I\u2019m not a fan of the old \u2018what would have happened if China would have settled America\u2019 questions.\u00a0 But it was meant to engage the kids.\u00a0 It seems to have worked.\u00a0 Great films all around.\u00a0 My star was none other than Joseph Stalin for a spin around America\u2019s involvement with the League of Nations.\u00a0 Here he is, on his way to receive one of the awards for the night (they were that good). <\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bidAa09YNHg\/T8gfar1SUqI\/AAAAAAAAA4I\/rcjPaxkH9g8\/s1600\/charlie+at+strand.png\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bidAa09YNHg\/T8gfar1SUqI\/AAAAAAAAA4I\/rcjPaxkH9g8\/s400\/charlie+at+strand.png\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">The red carpet, so to speak, leading to a night at the movies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my oldest had an AP History project tonight.\u00a0 The class divided into groups and had to produce a movie \u2013 that\u2019s right, a movie \u2013 that focused on some \u2018what if\u2019 scenario.\u00a0 Now between you, me, and the grandfather clock, I\u2019m not a fan of the old \u2018what would have happened if China would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Too cool for school<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So my oldest had an AP History project tonight.&nbsp; 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