{"id":646,"date":"2008-02-23T11:16:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/646"},"modified":"2008-02-23T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T17:16:38","slug":"teaching-a-zine-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/646","title":{"rendered":"Teaching a zine workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved to Boston,   I immediately contacted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papercutzinelibrary.com\">Papercut Zine Library<\/a>. I&#8217;ve started volunteering there,   and on Friday I got to go to <a href=\"www.826boston.org\/\">826 Boston<\/a> to help teach a zine-making workshop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3253\/2284486966_af7eda0169.jpg\" alt=\"Boys! zine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clara and I went to 826,   and we spent two hours teaching four kids ages 8-11 how to make zines. It was a very positive experience &#8211; the kids were absolutely awesome, the staff was as supportive as needed, and each kid ended up with a pretty imaginative, awesome zine.<\/p>\n<p>The two boys in the group were both into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/\">WWE<\/a> wrestling (which I happen to have a knowledge-base of) so we bonded while they decided what kind of wrestling zine to make.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2149\/2283696513_99afa9f99c.jpg\" alt=\"Wrestling zine\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This zine features the author&#8217;s top five favorite wrestlers, and his top five least favorites. I have to say, I agree with him on Edge (but I don&#8217;t like him because his eyes stick out funny, and is therefore not cute). His favorite is John Cena, who hails from MA.<\/p>\n<p>In all, it was the best zine-making experience I&#8217;ve ever had. Between Clara and I, we were able to give a lot of personal attention to each kid, and I&#8217;m so impressed that they were able to make clever, imaginative zines in two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved to Boston, I immediately contacted the Papercut Zine Library. I&#8217;ve started volunteering there, and on Friday I got to go to 826 Boston to help teach a zine-making workshop. Clara and I went to 826, and we spent two hours teaching four kids ages 8-11 how to make zines. It was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever","category-shes-crafty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}