{"id":1346,"date":"2014-11-10T00:47:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T07:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/tommakingportfolio\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-11-10T00:47:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T07:47:25","slug":"cst-week-6-thomas-bouwer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/cst-week-6-thomas-bouwer\/","title":{"rendered":"CST Week #6 Thomas Bouwer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is optimism always possible or favorable?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No fucking way&#8221;- Doctorow, <em>Makers,<\/em> 227<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure when I stopped being an optimist about everything, but I think this class might change that. Certainly, not much in Makers can be seen as optimistic, but this week, while I was still mad about my inability to link the class to the text, I saw people being more optimistic than me. People were having troubles with their designs and seeing it as learning oppurtunities. People would look at misprints and say &#8220;I&#8217;ll get it at some point soon.&#8221;\u00a0 The class is effectively acting opposite of the text, and it will be interesting to see where it pans out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is optimism always possible or favorable? &ldquo;No fucking way&rdquo;- Doctorow, Makers, 227 I&rsquo;m not sure when I stopped being an optimist about everything, but I think this class might change that. Certainly, not much in Makers can be seen as optimistic, but this week, while I was still mad about my inability to link the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}