{"id":145,"date":"2008-10-21T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/10\/21\/i-heard-from-a-former-student-today\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:45:43","slug":"i-heard-from-a-former-student-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/10\/21\/i-heard-from-a-former-student-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I heard from a former student today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Periodically I get Facebook friend requests from people who were students of mine at BG. Today was one such day. I have to say that hearing from students really makes my day. As a teacher we see kids leave all the time and wonder what happens to them. It\u2019s that old \u201cI shot an arrow into the air\u201d thing.<\/p>\n<p>In times past I suspect teachers heard from far fewer students especially more than a few years after graduation. The Internet changes that at least for teachers (or former teachers) who are available on the Internet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Periodically I get Facebook friend requests from people who were students of mine at BG. Today was one such day. I have to say that hearing from students really makes my day. As a teacher we see kids leave all the time and wonder what happens to them. It\u2019s that old \u201cI shot an arrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}