{"id":25907,"date":"2020-03-30T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25907"},"modified":"2020-03-30T08:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:12:38","slug":"homeschooling-day-9-not-the-movie-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/homeschooling-day-9-not-the-movie-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschooling, Day 9: Not the Movie For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my beautiful wife picked &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/44263\/fire-and-ice\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fire and Ice<\/a>&#8221; by Robert Frost for our daily poem.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the perfect film for it:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/icepirates.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The Ice Pirates<\/em> starring Robert Urich between his stints as Gavilan and Spenser.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it was on Showtime in the middle 1980s.  Yes, I did watch it over and over again whilst confined to quarters, which in the middle 1980s was a 12&#8242; by 60&#8242; trailer, and I wasn&#8217;t supposed to go outside when my mother wasn&#8217;t home during the work week.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have it on DVD, I am not sure when I will watch it with the boys.  Mostly because I don&#8217;t want to have to explain what a Space Herpe is.  Or, worse, <em>not<\/em> explain it and have to explain to another parent why my child called her child a Space Herpe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my beautiful wife picked &#8220;Fire and Ice&#8221; by Robert Frost for our daily poem. I thought of the perfect film for it: The Ice Pirates starring Robert Urich between his stints as Gavilan and Spenser. Yes, it was on Showtime in the middle 1980s. Yes, I did watch it over and over again whilst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907","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=25907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25908,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907\/revisions\/25908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}