{"id":491,"date":"2007-07-22T07:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=491"},"modified":"2007-07-22T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T14:23:47","slug":"planning-getting-back-in-the-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/07\/planning-getting-back-in-the-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANNING: Getting Back in the Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>ith the clouds thinning out to wispy threads streaming south in the sky of my mind, I&#8217;ve once again clicked open the <em>Alice<\/em> software and diddled around in it just reacquainting myself with its format. There&#8217;s Socrates standing in the middle of the garden, hailing a rather odd character that&#8217;s unsure of his surroundings as he enters and approaches the other man.&nbsp; In another scenario, there are a man and woman with their arms at odd angles standing hip-high in a maze.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>What was I thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Slowly it all comes back to me and it turns from a spectator sport to movie director.&nbsp; Now I need the key grip, the cameraman, lighting and more to bring it back to life.<\/p>\n<p>A quick flip through the <em>Learning to Program with Alice<\/em> book is inspiring with its simple-looking directions and wonderful full color images that are meant not to intimidate but to welcome an attitude of learning.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A sky?&nbsp; Maybe better: an ocean of mind, where the flotsam and jetsom of shipwrecks bounce away on the waves of time.&nbsp; Crystal blue waters that beg exploration, flashes of bright colored fish darting around, and a promise of treasure below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>ith the clouds thinning out to wispy threads streaming south in the sky of my mind, I&#8217;ve once again clicked open the Alice software and diddled around in it just reacquainting myself with its format. There&#8217;s Socrates standing in the middle of the garden, hailing a rather odd character that&#8217;s unsure of his surroundings as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}