{"id":26293,"date":"2013-12-13T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=26293"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:13:03","slug":"laughing-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/12\/13\/laughing-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The end of this semester is a little bit more bittersweet than others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The overwhelming sense of a relief a teacher feels when class is over is just indescribable. Don\u2019t get me wrong. I love teaching, but there\u2019s a point where I feel I have nothing left to give.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">This semester is different though because it was the first semester I taught my comedy- and humor-themed research composition class at Wright State. I prepared for this class for months and this fall, my experiment began.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">I asked my students to write jokes, research papers on comedians or comedic techniques and journals on academic articles related to humor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairborndailyherald.com\/news\/opinion_columns\/3096183\/Laughing-and-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FairbornDailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt The end of this semester is a little bit more bittersweet than others. The overwhelming sense of a relief a teacher feels when class is over is just indescribable. Don\u2019t get me wrong. I love teaching, but there\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/12\/13\/laughing-and-learning\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130205,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions\/130205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}