{"id":24601,"date":"2011-12-01T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/riley-palmer-a-second-grader-at-city-and-country\/"},"modified":"2011-12-01T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T15:52:21","slug":"riley-palmer-a-second-grader-at-city-and-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/riley-palmer-a-second-grader-at-city-and-country\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Riley Palmer, a second grader at City and Country, said that creating a series of Brooklyn Bridges, each about three feet tall, helped her class understand what it had been like for the original builders. \u201cThere is so much you can do with blocks,\u201d Riley said. \u201cYou can stagger them. You can stack them. It\u2019s fun and cool. And when we\u2019re done, we\u2019re going to be able to show everybody in school what we did.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/28\/nyregion\/with-building-blocks-educators-going-back-to-basics.html?_r=1&amp;ref=nyregion&amp;pagewanted=print\">With Building Blocks, Educators Going Back to Basics &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Constructionism (no pun intended) exemplified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Palmer, a second grader at City and Country, said that creating a series of Brooklyn Bridges, each about three feet tall, helped her class understand what it had been like for the original builders. \u201cThere is so much you can do with blocks,\u201d Riley said. \u201cYou can stagger them. You can stack them. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6oN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}