{"id":389,"date":"2005-07-12T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2005\/07\/on-the-blackboard\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T15:14:25","slug":"on-the-blackboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2005\/07\/12\/on-the-blackboard\/","title":{"rendered":"On the blackboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"snippings.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/snippings.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"352\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis is part of what the students at my school study, when they&#8217;re not sleeping, reading comics, applying make up (and it&#8217;s not just the girls these days), drawing pornographic pictures, using their cell phones, or the various other extra-curricular activities that they pursue during class time. The students here work pretty hard outside at gardening and working the fields.<br \/>\nIn the city, fresh and cheap are mutually exclusive qualities when one shops for produce. One of the benefits of working at this school is that I can buy fruits and vegetables at less than half of what they would cost in the supermarket. In addition, they also sell flowers, plants, and today they&#8217;re selling kabutomushi (rhinocerous beetles).  Not that I want to buy a beetle, even at a discounted price, but it&#8217;s nice to know that the option is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of what the students at my school study, when they&#8217;re not sleeping, reading comics, applying make up (and it&#8217;s not just the girls these days), drawing pornographic pictures, using their cell phones, or the various other extra-curricular activities that they pursue during class time. The students here work pretty hard outside at &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2005\/07\/12\/on-the-blackboard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/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-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}