{"id":237,"date":"2009-02-22T19:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-02-22T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:58:23","slug":"latest-course-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Latest Course dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always dreaming of courses I&#8217;d like to teach but will never get the chance to.   Today, as I finished &#8220;The Known World,&#8221; I thought of a new class:  an introduction to historiography taught mostly through literature: <\/p>\n<p>Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (to discuss the use of sources) <\/p>\n<p>Edward Jones, the Known World (to discuss agency vs. structure) <\/p>\n<p>Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (to discuss family\/diaspora)  <\/p>\n<p>Madison Smart Bell, All Souls Rising  (to discuss what&#8217;s known and what&#8217;s ignored) <\/p>\n<p>Short story: Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury The Dead  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always dreaming of courses I&#8217;d like to teach but will never get the chance to. Today, as I finished &#8220;The Known World,&#8221; I thought of a new class: an introduction to historiography taught mostly through literature: Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (to discuss the use of sources) Edward Jones, the Known World (to discuss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Latest Course dream<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-3P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}