{"id":2709,"date":"2020-06-23T02:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/06\/23\/learning-opportunities-at-trump-rally\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T02:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:29:58","slug":"learning-opportunities-at-trump-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/06\/23\/learning-opportunities-at-trump-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning opportunities at Trump rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fox claimed the Tulsa Trump speech generated a HUGE audience. Republicans seem really hard up for something to ponder. I don\u2019t do Fox so I only caught bits and pieces. Evidently mail ballots for old people leads to voter fraud and slowing down testing reduces the spread of the virus. There also seemed to be a lot of off-topic content. There was a long explanation of the physics of steep ramps, rubber and leather soled shoes, and the inertia of over weight people once set in motion. I should of had my notebook handy. That demo of one-handed water chugging was also impressive. I assume the attendees were capable of the feat, but it was thoughtful to throw it in. I used to add similar life skill demos to kind of break things up during my lectures. I didn\u2019t think the drinking water demo was necessary, but I did explain how to remove that pesky plastic wrapper from textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox claimed the Tulsa Trump speech generated a HUGE audience. Republicans seem really hard up for something to ponder. I don\u2019t do Fox so I only caught bits and pieces. Evidently mail ballots for old people leads to voter fraud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/06\/23\/learning-opportunities-at-trump-rally\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}