{"id":1176,"date":"2013-11-11T20:53:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T00:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2013-11-11T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:13:17","slug":"first-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"First thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another November month of novel-writing has begun and once again I’m dust before the month has even really started. I thought I’d turn to this blog instead and start on an idea I had a couple months ago, while thinking about how tough some of my students can be and remembering how impossible I must have been at their age. <\/p>\n

From the heroes of my college days:<\/a> <\/p>\n

when you’re young and defensive,
\nit comes off offensive,
\nand it’s hard to repay
\nthe tolerance that you borrow. <\/strong> <\/p>\n

At 45, I’ve incurred debts no honest may could really pay. So…I’ll try to write a public thank you each day for the next thirty days and see where it takes me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another November month of novel-writing has begun and once again I’m dust before the month has even really started. I thought I’d turn to this blog instead and start on an idea I had a couple months ago, while thinking about how tough some of my students can be and remembering how impossible I must … Continue reading First thank you<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-iY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}