{"id":3899,"date":"2015-01-03T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2015-01-20T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:17:39","slug":"london-its-that-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2015\/01\/03\/london-its-that-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"London (it&#8217;s that time again!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">So here we go again, the &#8216;every two years&#8217; jaunt to &#8216;Blighty&#8217; for the J Term.<\/p>\n<p>Two things of note here: 1. It&#8217;s my largest group of students &#8211; a class of 12 juniors and seniors, and 2. Using my smallest equipment to deliver the class yet &#8211; a palm projector coupled to an iPad mini, with a portable pair of speakers. It&#8217;s my aim to eventually deliver my syllabus (primarily three big Keynote\/Powerpoint presentations) using just my iPhone and a palm projector &#8211; getting closer!<\/p>\n<p>So we only arrived around 8am this morning after the usual long but incident free journey from Chicago O Hare to Heathrow (actually, I took the charter bus from Peoria, so add another three hours travel time onto that.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3899 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2015\/01\/03\/london-its-that-time-again\/image-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2015\/01\/image1-e1420300545114-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3902\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3902'>\n\t\t\t\tPre Boarding Excitment!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2015\/01\/03\/london-its-that-time-again\/image-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2015\/01\/image-e1420300494461-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3901\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3901'>\n\t\t\t\tScampi, Chips, Peas and a pint of Director &#8211; Perfect!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2015\/01\/03\/london-its-that-time-again\/image-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2015\/01\/image2-e1420300572742-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3903\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3903'>\n\t\t\t\tSetting the students loose in Camden Market\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Thank goodness for phone charges built into buses these days). My students were a little weary but still good to go for a few more hours until the &#8216;crash&#8217; finally kicks in.<\/p>\n<p>The Imperial Hotel still looks good with it&#8217;s Christmas decorations hanging on for dear life as the new year kicks in.<\/p>\n<p>A relatively &#8216;gentle&#8217; first day with the only two things on my agenda being to take my class out on the tube&#8230; and then leave them to find their own way home. It&#8217;s just a bit of tough love. They&#8217;ll thank me for it &#8211; at least those that make it back to the hotel will \ud83d\ude42 The second thing was purely personal &#8211; to sit down in one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngs.co.uk\/pubs\/lamb\" target=\"_blank\">favorite pubs<\/a> with an English lunch and a pint of finest &#8211; in this case, a pint of Directors. Everything gets busy tomorrow, so nice just to relax for one day at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here we go again, the &#8216;every two years&#8217; jaunt to &#8216;Blighty&#8217; for the J Term. Two things of note here: 1. It&#8217;s my largest group of students &#8211; a class of 12 juniors and seniors, and 2. Using my smallest equipment to deliver the class yet &#8211; a palm projector coupled to an iPad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2015\/01\/03\/london-its-that-time-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;London (it&#8217;s that time again!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-j-term-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}