{"id":10194,"date":"2026-08-02T06:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:32:32","slug":"from-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=10194","title":{"rendered":"From the archives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"346\" data-attachment-id=\"10193\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?attachment_id=10193\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,692\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4943 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2-1024x346.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2-1024x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2-1024x346.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2-768x260.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2-1536x519.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4943-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From October of 1997: my first formal observation in the School District of Philadelphia.   Will post a picture of my room in two weeks to see if I&#8217;ve gotten any better.  (See the header of the blog for my current north wall.) If I ever get this book published, this photo will be at the introduction to the first chapter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From October of 1997: my first formal observation in the School District of Philadelphia. Will post a picture of my room in two weeks to see if I&#8217;ve gotten any better. (See the header of the blog for my current north wall.) If I ever get this book published, this photo will be at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=10194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From the archives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2026-2027"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2Eq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}