{"id":598,"date":"2008-05-07T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/05\/07\/the-good-class\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T20:31:11","slug":"the-good-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/05\/07\/the-good-class\/","title":{"rendered":"the good class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/138-laughing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197504542760088946\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/139-laughing.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>i gave my final lecture today, to a much-loved group of 55 students that i&#8217;m gonna miss every tues and thurs at 12:45. every couple years, a teacher gets a class that&#8217;s a little more fun\/serious\/intense\/honest than yer average collection of students. this one laughed at most of my jokes, didn&#8217;t complain when lectures went a little long, and asked good hard questions. they even caught the li&#8217;l musical intros i played before class. more importantly, of course, they thought hard about sociological criminology and put some good work in on their papers and exams.<\/p>\n<p>i can understand how they might&#8217;ve heard <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=-YMnLWz_XQc\">air<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=vg4dnFx6JW0\">al green<\/a> before, but how does a twenty-year-old know all the words to a song by <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=20S_kwNb4rg\">the sonics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw\">tony joe white<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=vV8KvKYRxig\">the seeds<\/a>? anyway, this was a pretty cool group of future sociologists, cops, social workers, lawyers, probation officers, and journalists. i hope they <em>crush<\/em> on the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i gave my final lecture today, to a much-loved group of 55 students that i&#8217;m gonna miss every tues and thurs at 12:45. every couple years, a teacher gets a class that&#8217;s a little more fun\/serious\/intense\/honest than yer average collection of students. this one laughed at most of my jokes, didn&#8217;t complain when lectures went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}