{"id":17609,"date":"2017-11-21T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=17609"},"modified":"2017-11-20T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T19:14:35","slug":"book-report-teachers-jokes-quotes-and-anecdotes-edited-by-patrick-regan-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/book-report-teachers-jokes-quotes-and-anecdotes-edited-by-patrick-regan-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes<\/i> edited by Patrick Regan (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/teachers.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">The people behind this book built it to be a teacher-friendly gift for students to give their secret Santas and whatnot in the educational system.  It collects quotes about education from a variety of classical sources, includes a jokes relating to schooling that cast teachers in a flattering light, and shares anecdotes from actual teachers about amusing incidents they encountered.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s a pretty thick little book&#8211;260+ pages&#8211;with only two short bits per page, it&#8217;s a pretty quick scan, amusing enough but not something that&#8217;s going to stick to your mental ribs.<\/p>\n<p>So an amusing couple of hours of flipping, and nothing more.  Unless you receive it as a gift and you&#8217;re a teacher, in which case it could be a memento.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0760755752&#038;asins=0760755752&#038;linkId=a6e43ea4893318bd7023c59db4d764b9&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people behind this book built it to be a teacher-friendly gift for students to give their secret Santas and whatnot in the educational system. It collects quotes about education from a variety of classical sources, includes a jokes relating to schooling that cast teachers in a flattering light, and shares anecdotes from actual teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17610,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions\/17610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}