{"id":80,"date":"2008-02-19T01:03:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T01:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chestercomix.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/80\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T13:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:59:36","slug":"80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/80\/","title":{"rendered":"Kempsville Elementary Chalk Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/b-man1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79\" alt=\"B-Man to the Rescue!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/b-man1-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/b-man1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/b-man1.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you hold the attention of 500 elementary students on a rainy day? Show them how a few penlines makes anyone into a superdude! I draw three versions of myself in my Author&#8217;s Purpose talks, to show how a powerful imagination can reshape reality (and there is no greater reshaping to be done than to make me into a superhero!).<\/p>\n<p>I had a great time at Kempsville Elementary in Virginia Beach last week. After the opening session in the cafeteria I did break-out sessions with two classes at a time, and we drew up a storm. A brainstorm &#8211; there were drawings about Ben Franklin&#8217;s kite hypothesis, Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s narrow miss of a hangman&#8217;s noose and Abe Lincoln&#8217;s old magic hat. We even explained why the Powhatan Indians built longhouses out of the reeds and sticks on the ground around them &#8212; because no one had invented &#8220;Longhouse Depot&#8221; for Saturday errands yet.<\/p>\n<p>Elementary students love feeling the power of their own creativity. So did I &#8211; so I never gave it up!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you hold the attention of 500 elementary students on a rainy day? Show them how a few penlines makes anyone into a superdude! I draw three versions of myself in my Author&#8217;s Purpose talks, to show how a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/80\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[165,27,46,73,93,153],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-purpose","tag-authors-purpose","tag-bentley-boyd","tag-chester-the-crab","tag-graphic-novels","tag-kempsville-elemenetary","tag-virginia-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}