{"id":229,"date":"2011-09-21T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-09-21T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:42:55","slug":"the-jelly-belly-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/the-jelly-belly-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jelly Belly Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-230\" title=\"IMG_2873\" src=\"http:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2873.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2873.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2873-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2873-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_2873-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Today I&#8217;m asking my University of Georgia magazine writing class to write an in-class review, using all five senses. The review will be very short &#8212; 140 <em>characters<\/em> (not words, but letters, counting spaces), to be precise, or the maximum length of a tweet or text message, or the average Facebook post. Fortunately, the subject matter is also small: A single Jelly Belly gourmet jelly bean, in all its exotica.<\/p>\n<p>They are allowed to use any abbreviations or slang commonly used on Twitter, Facebook, IMs or other social media\/online chat rooms. However, they need to get their points across so that these users can easily understand them. And: They need to craft interesting, accurate descriptions. Creativity counts. I wanted them to post here so they could all read one another&#8217;s reviews. They will have a few minutes at the end of class to complete the assignment, so it&#8217;s a tight deadline too.<\/p>\n<p>On your mark,  get set&#8230; tweet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m asking my University of Georgia magazine writing class to write an in-class review, using all five senses. The review will be very short &#8212; 140 characters (not words, but letters, counting spaces), to be precise, or the maximum length of a tweet or text message, or the average Facebook post. Fortunately, the subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristareese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}