{"id":134,"date":"2007-09-17T11:19:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/16\/holly-shows-boomerangs-in-art-class\/"},"modified":"2008-09-29T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T15:03:31","slug":"holly-shows-boomerangs-in-art-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Holly Shows Boomerangs in Art Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/holly\/Holly+with+Aboriginal+art+boomerangs+in+Art+class.JPG.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright giThumbnail\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/d\/5757-2\/Holly+with+Aboriginal+art+boomerangs+in+Art+class.JPG\" alt=\"Holly with Aboriginal art boomerangs in Art class\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Holly\u2019s 7th grade Art class had a discussion on Aboriginal art and Holly mentioned that her family happened to have \u201ca few boomerangs\u201d. The teacher wanted to see some, so the next day, Holly took a few to school. With all the questions of \u201cDo they really come back?\u201d, the whole class soon ended up out on the football field with Holly giving an impromptu demonstration. Luckily, she had also taken a lightweight Carlotta to show how more \u201cmodern\u201d paintjobs contrast to the Aboriginal. So she had something easy to throw to start with. After she threw and caught the Carlotta, the teacher and other kids wanted to see one of the bigger boomerangs in action. Though Holly had never thrown anything so large, she made a go of it and got some good returns. The class was very impressed and now know that yes, they really do come back. The teacher sent me this photo of Holly holding some boomerangs in front of some of the class\u2019s aboriginal art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly\u2019s 7th grade Art class had a discussion on Aboriginal art and Holly mentioned that her family happened to have \u201ca few boomerangs\u201d. The teacher wanted to see some, so the next day, Holly took a few to school. With all the questions of \u201cDo they really come back?\u201d, the whole class soon ended up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boomerangs","category-holly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}