{"id":12,"date":"2008-01-21T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcgaughey.edublogs.org\/2008\/01\/21\/we-wrote-a-letter-to-a-band-and-got-a-reply\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T14:42:45","slug":"we-wrote-a-letter-to-a-band-and-got-a-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"We wrote a letter to a band, and got a reply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/troutmusic.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trout Fishing in America\" src=\"http:\/\/bay.scdsb.on.ca\/classes\/mcgaughey\/media\/tfia-bio5.jpg\"><br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      Our class likes to listen to the music of the band, <a title=\"http:\/\/troutmusic.com\" name=\"http:\/\/troutmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/troutmusic.com\">Trout<br \/>\n      Fishing in America (http:\/\/troutmusic.com)<\/a> . In November the<br \/>\n      children planned and dictated a letter to Trout Fishing in America while<br \/>\n      Mr. McGaughey typed.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <b>Here is the letter we wrote.<\/b>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Tuesday, November 13, 2007\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      (Written by Mr. McGaugheys Grade1 class. Typed by Mr. McGaughey).\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      Dear Ezra and Keith:\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      Hello, we are Mr. McGaughey\u2019s Grade one class at Bayview School in<br \/>\n      Midland, Ontario Canada. We really like your song about 18 Wheels on a<br \/>\n      Big Rig. Thank you for writing the song. We wish you will write many<br \/>\n      more songs. We sing this song to begin our math class.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Yours Truly,\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      Mr. McGaughey\u2019s Grade1 Class.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      <b>Here is the response we got, from Karen Thom, who works with Trout<br \/>\n      Fishing in America.<\/b>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Hi Sean,\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Thanks for the note from you and your students. I will forward on to<br \/>\n      Keith and Ezra. I know they will appreciate you taking the time to<br \/>\n      write. Although Trout does a great version of 18 wheels on a big rig, it<br \/>\n      was actually written by a guy named Heywood Banks (a comedian). It<br \/>\n      really is a fun song and we love to hear that it is used in the<br \/>\n      classroom.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      &#8230;\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Best fishes,\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Karen Thom\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Trout Records\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      A few weeks later, they recorded a short voice message for the class on<br \/>\n      the phone with Mr. McGaughey.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      You can listen to that message <a href=\"http:\/\/bay.scdsb.on.ca\/classes\/mcgaughey\/media\/Grade1messagefromTFIA.mp3\">here<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our class likes to listen to the music of the band, Trout Fishing in America (http:\/\/troutmusic.com) . In November the children planned and dictated a letter to Trout Fishing in America while Mr. McGaughey typed. Here is the letter we wrote. Tuesday, November 13, 2007 (Written by Mr. McGaugheys Grade1 class. Typed by Mr. McGaughey). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/?p=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}