{"id":343,"date":"2010-05-30T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T13:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-05-30T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T13:13:04","slug":"science-fiction-class-off-to-a-rocky-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction class off to a rocky start"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, the department changed the course number, and the class was listed in the schedule of classes as simply “Readings in Literature.”\u00c2\u00a0 No one<\/strong> knew they were signing up for a science fiction class.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple were pleased.\u00c2\u00a0 Some were stunned.\u00c2\u00a0 Some are gone.\u00c2\u00a0 To make matters more complicated, the first book on the reading list, The Stars My Destination<\/em>, is out of print (even though according to the bookstore Random House took the order and only told the store last minute).\u00c2\u00a0 Scrambling to rearrange the schedule, I’ve had to front load the movies, so we’re barely underway and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/em>all of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Fast-paced it ain’t.\u00c2\u00a0 So a week has gone by, they’ve watched two movies, and I barely know them except for their names.\u00c2\u00a0 They turn in the first paper on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/em> when we return on Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve read the novel close to a dozen times now and still enjoy it and find new things in it.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s hoping my students liked it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, the department changed the course number, and the class was listed in the schedule of classes as simply “Readings in Literature.”\u00c2\u00a0 No one knew they were signing up for a science fiction class.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple were pleased.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}