{"id":1569,"date":"2006-02-09T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:46:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:46:21","slug":"mansion-fire-and-pooped-out-teacher-ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Mansion fire and pooped-out teacher ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/bilde.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/bilde.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This photo from today&#8217;s Asbury Park Press shows what remains of the beautiful historic mansion that was the Thompson Park Visitor&#8217;s Center.  It was destroyed by fire on Monday.  I drove through the park today on my way to class and was so sad to see it.  I was just there in October with a few other Master Gardeners and a couple hundred Girl Scouts planting 1968 daffodils to commemorate the year the mansion was donated to the park system.  Renovations had just about been completed on the building (about $3.5 million worth).  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Class went well tonight, but I am glad to be done for the week.  My students continue to surprise me with their insights and abilities.  I would love to spend hours discussing the novel with them, and listening to them talk about it with one another, but we have to get serious about preparing for mid-term exams in a few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo from today&#8217;s Asbury Park Press shows what remains of the beautiful historic mansion that was the Thompson Park Visitor&#8217;s Center. It was destroyed by fire on Monday. I drove through the park today on my way to class and was so sad to see it. I was just there in October with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mansion fire and pooped-out teacher ramblings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}