{"id":11386,"date":"2021-11-25T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2021-11-25T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:55:00","slug":"smacking-down-the-little-art-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11386","title":{"rendered":"Smacking Down The Little Art Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they bring a measure of unselfconscious joy and beauty into the world&#8230;and we can&#8217;t be having that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/happysnail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11387\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/happysnail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/happysnail.png 523w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/happysnail-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written before about how many years ago Montgomery County allowed you to go read your school records&#8230;basically everything your teachers wrote about you for the other teachers and administrators to see. So I went and looked and there wasn&#8217;t much there I didn&#8217;t expect to see. But what did tickle me was my first grade teacher who Did Not like me or mom one little bit wrote that little Bruce &#8220;<em>takes excessive interest in personal art projects.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I had two art teachers who got me, and they encouraged me and that really helped a lot. But some teachers when they see the slightest hint of artistic interest have some sort of allergic reaction and do their damnedest to kill it in a kid. I suppose so they don&#8217;t have to see how stone cold and dead their soul is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they bring a measure of unselfconscious joy and beauty into the world&#8230;and we can&#8217;t be having that. I&#8217;ve written before about how many years ago Montgomery County allowed you to go read your school records&#8230;basically everything your teachers wrote about you for the other teachers and administrators to see. So I went and looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[271,147,103],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-art-kid-chronicles","tag-the-artists-need","tag-the-human-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}