{"id":26502,"date":"2020-07-07T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26502"},"modified":"2020-07-07T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:22:26","slug":"homeschoolingish-update-say-hello-to-my-little-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/07\/homeschoolingish-update-say-hello-to-my-little-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschoolingish Update: Say Hello To My Little Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boys and I have taken a couple weeks (a month) off of continuing education, but I&#8217;ve added some schoolish work back into their day by introducing them to one of the greatest books in the history of writingkind:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/elementsofstyle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When I was in high school, I took a college composition class (which offered three hours of college credit for taking it).  The class used this as a text book, probably the third edition, and I probably still have the copy I used in that class.<\/p>\n<p>As I have mentioned previously (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/21\/good-book-hunting-january-18-2012\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/good-book-hunting-april-17-2012-the-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/good-book-hunting-late-april-may-2009\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>), if I see it in a book sale, I&#8217;ll pick it up and give the copy to someone.  I once bought copies for everyone in the company back when I was an Executive in a small interactive marketing agency.  So I&#8217;m a fan.<\/p>\n<p>The boys, on the other hand, are more, erm, <em>reluctant<\/em> devotees as our short lessons on this short book interrupt the time they&#8217;d rather spend playing video games, fighting, or complaining about being bored.  Which, as I remember, was what I did on summer vacations when I lived down the gravel road and had nowhere to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boys and I have taken a couple weeks (a month) off of continuing education, but I&#8217;ve added some schoolish work back into their day by introducing them to one of the greatest books in the history of writingkind: When I was in high school, I took a college composition class (which offered three hours [&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-26502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502","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=26502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26503,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26502\/revisions\/26503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}