{"id":156,"date":"2007-05-10T21:48:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T01:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-05-10T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T01:48:05","slug":"stop-that-push-and-shoving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/stop-that-push-and-shoving\/","title":{"rendered":"stop that push and shoving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little quiet around this here blag lately.  Why?  I&#8217;m not exactly sure.  I&#8217;m on my one-week break between the spring + summer semesters, though I&#8217;ve packed it with internship stuff and Gus&#8217; school stuff, so I&#8217;m not just lying around the house eating bonbons.  I think I was a little down last weekend, maybe a bit of the end of semester blues.  And the job search is looming, so that&#8217;s a tad stressful, too.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;ve done some fun stuff as well.  Yesterday I went on a field trip with Gus&#8217; class to the Whitney Museum.  I really needed a coffee after herding 21 kindergarteners (!) on 3 different subways (!!) during rush hour (!!!) to get from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side, but sadly there were no walk-through espresso bars on the way into the museum.  I wanted to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/www\/exhibition\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Matta-Clark<\/a> exhibit, but the kids were scheduled to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/www\/american_voices\/540\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Calder&#8217;s Circus<\/a> and I thought it would be bad form to ditch them.  The Whitney&#8217;s educators were fantastic and the kids had a really fun time making sculpture with colored wires and volunteering incredible information: e.g. that a moving sculpture was like a see-saw which, by the way, is a lever.  Little smarties.<\/p>\n<p>And another fun thing is coming up this weekend: our building&#8217;s annual stoop sale!  Huzzah!  This year we mostly have lots and lots of old toys to sell, having convinced the little prince that it was time for many of the &#8220;baby&#8221; things to hit the road.  Everything is piled up in our study and ready to go, and anything that doesn&#8217;t sell is going to charity the very instant the sale is over.  Ahhh, nothing makes the OCD-ridden happier than getting rid of stuff.  Good times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little quiet around this here blag lately. Why? I&#8217;m not exactly sure. I&#8217;m on my one-week break between the spring + summer semesters, though I&#8217;ve packed it with internship stuff and Gus&#8217; school stuff, so I&#8217;m not just lying around the house eating bonbons. I think I was a little down last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}