{"id":280,"date":"2015-01-23T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-01-23T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:44:19","slug":"start-of-the-semester-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Start of the Semester Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spring semester starts this week for my Pratt students and next week for my Parsons students. \u00a0The beginning of the semester is always a little hectic and stressful. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a bit of fun to take the edge off. \u00a0Not many forms of energy have their own song. \u00a0Here&#8217;s &#8220;Electricity&#8221; by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (aka OMD).\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s so painfully dated that it&#8217;s funny.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"863\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y43XLVqjytQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spring semester starts this week for my Pratt students and next week for my Parsons students. \u00a0The beginning of the semester is always a little hectic and stressful. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a bit of fun to take the edge off. \u00a0Not many forms of energy have their own song. \u00a0Here&#8217;s &#8220;Electricity&#8221; by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Start of the Semester Fun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-back-to-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-4w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":668,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=668","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":0},"title":"Democracy is Coming to the USA","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"November 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I've taken on too much work this semester and haven't had a chance to post for a while, but here's something that seems appropriate to the past week.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":58,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=58","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":1},"title":"Back to School","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"January 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The prediction is for a cold and snowy day in Brooklyn as my students and I return to \u00a0Pratt after the winter break. \u00a0This semester will be the final pass through the PowerPoint slides that will be available to instructors on Wiley's web site. \u00a0It will also be, by my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=21"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1268,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=1268","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":2},"title":"Back to School","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"September 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This semester I decided to look at songs with colors in the title. Of course, Purple Rain is the first one that comes to mind, so here's the performance from the movie. https:\/\/youtu.be\/TvnYmWpD_T8 But purple isn't the only color. 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