{"id":817,"date":"2017-06-06T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/?p=817"},"modified":"2017-06-10T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T20:31:09","slug":"bj-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/2017\/06\/06\/bj-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"BJ Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/2017\/06\/06\/bj-watson\/img_20170606_202200\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170606_202200-e1497126331626-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170606_202200-e1497126331626-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170606_202200-e1497126331626-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170606_202200-e1497126331626-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Today was a proud day for me as an educator. The guest speaker for our 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony was Bertram &#8220;BJ&#8221; Watson, Jr &#8211; a football player for Harvard and one of my first Media Arts students. (This was long enough ago that we didn&#8217;t even call it Media Arts back then, but we still made movies.)<\/p>\n<p>He was an incredible speaker, and what he had to say mirrored a lot of what I try to teach in my classroom.<\/p>\n<p>So naturally, the best photo I have of him is a blurry mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a proud day for me as an educator. The guest speaker for our 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony was Bertram &#8220;BJ&#8221; Watson, Jr &#8211; a football player for Harvard and one of my first Media Arts students. (This was long enough ago that we didn&#8217;t even call it Media Arts back then, but we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[3,39],"tags":[183,185,184,186,82,81],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-school-photo","tag-8th-grade-promotion","tag-bj-watson","tag-ceremony","tag-former-student","tag-self-portrait","tag-selfie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_20170606_202200-e1497126331626.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NYym-db","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":584,"url":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/2016\/11\/17\/media-day-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":817,"position":0},"title":"Media Day 2016","author":"Aaron Smith","date":"2016-11-17","format":false,"excerpt":"Media Day is very much like a Career Day, but with a specific focus on careers in digital media and broadcasting. 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