{"id":6844,"date":"2020-04-06T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2020-04-06T21:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:01:10","slug":"author-visits-while-in-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/author-visits-while-in-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Author visits while in isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s such a different way of life for all of us right now, as we all work together to stop the spread of COVID-19. It&#8217;s an especially difficult challenge for students and teachers who can only meet via screen for now. This spring was going to be a busy one for me, filled with lots of school visits and award events but everything has been canceled. There&#8217;s been one bright glimmer, though. Scholastic Book Fairs has been able to organize some Zoom visits, with students and teachers participating from home. I did two of these recently, one on Friday with Solar Prep in Dallas, and another today, with St. Laurence School in Sugar Land Texas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence3-2-1024x624.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6852\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence3-2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6852\" class=\"wp-image-6852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence3-2-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence3-2-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence3-2-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence3-2-1536x937.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">St Laurence<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence2-1-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6851\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence2-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6851\" class=\"wp-image-6851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence2-1-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence2-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence2-1-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence2-1-1536x984.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">St Laurence<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence1-1-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6850\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence1-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6850\" class=\"wp-image-6850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence1-1-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence1-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence1-1-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Skrypuch.St_.Lawrence1-1-1536x1008.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">St Laurence<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep-1024x916.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6849\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6849\" class=\"wp-image-6849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep-1024x916.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep-1536x1374.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep-1200x1073.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/solarprep.jpg 1923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Solar Prep<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s such a different way of life for all of us right now, as we all work together to stop the spread of COVID-19. It&#8217;s an especially difficult challenge for students and teachers who can only meet via screen for now. This spring was going to be a busy one for me, filled with lots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/author-visits-while-in-isolation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Author visits while in isolation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[501,475],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-covid-19","tag-virtual-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}