{"id":33250,"date":"2013-04-18T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/the-sf-curriculum.html"},"modified":"2013-04-19T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T14:20:10","slug":"the-sf-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/the-sf-curriculum.html","title":{"rendered":"The SF Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">In general I tend to be suspicious of legislators pushing their own agendas on school curricula. \u00a0But, damn, I would have loved to have had more SF in my junior and senior high English classes.<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Future.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/sci\/west-virginia-legislator-mandatory-science-fiction-schools.html'>West Virginia Legislator Wants Mandatory Science Fiction In Schools<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Even as a kid who loved to read from pretty much the first time I could grasp the concept, it was tough dealing with all the assigned reading in school. Not\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/PNbpoAHeu5L' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general I tend to be suspicious of legislators pushing their own agendas on school curricula. \u00a0But, damn, I would have loved to have had more SF in my junior and senior high English classes. West Virginia Legislator Wants Mandatory Science Fiction In Schools Even as a kid who loved to read from pretty much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/the-sf-curriculum.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The SF Curriculum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,36,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-school-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136861,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/famous-80s-sf-movies-as-anime.html","url_meta":{"origin":33250,"position":0},"title":"Famous 80s SF movies as Anime","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Jul-18 10:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some really nice images done by Dmitry Grozov, aka Ahriman, of classic SF (Blade Runner, Predator, Terminator, Robocop, etc.) done in an 80s-90s anime style. 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