{"id":500,"date":"2007-11-15T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=500"},"modified":"2007-11-15T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T22:02:00","slug":"the-mirthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/the-mirthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mirthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2032238715\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2059\/2032238715_d38bfac834.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2032238715\/\">The Mirthquake<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tI visited Jennifer at her school today, to help her fix her video machine.<\/p>\n<p>So when the bell rang, I asked Jennifer if we could do The Mirthquake with the kids.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beaut group exercise that I got from a book called THE LAUGHING CLASSROOM.<\/p>\n<p>People pair up, and make eye contact. For the first twenty seconds, they just silently smile. <\/p>\n<p>The next twenty seconds. They silently mime laughter.<\/p>\n<p>The last twenty seconds they let out all of the pent up laughing sounds.<\/p>\n<p>This drawing was done on Jen&#8217;s whiteboard, and then finessed afterwards so the kids can have it as a reference for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Camera phone upload powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shozu.com\/?utm_source=upload&amp;utm_medium=graphic&amp;utm_campaign=upload_graphic\/\" target=\"_newwindow\">ShoZu<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mirthquake, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I visited Jennifer at her school today, to help her fix her video machine. So when the bell rang, I asked Jennifer if we could do The Mirthquake with the kids. It&#8217;s a beaut &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/the-mirthquake\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mirthquake<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-84","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}