{"id":1501,"date":"2015-09-12T07:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:17:32","slug":"day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altruistic.<\/p>\n<p>Not the word I might have come up with.\u00a0 Not a word I&#8217;d heard before in all of our efforts across the years to come up with words we want to be known by.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a word I tend to hear students using.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a word I hear friends and colleagues using that often.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the group loved it.\u00a0\u00a0 IB proposed it initially and there&#8217;s this good, sincere energy around the table about it.\u00a0\u00a0 Having attended a high school whose motto (Non Sibi (not for self)) was addressed by creating lawyers and finance types whose yearly donations likely dwarf my salary, I was happy to hear the students talking about what this word might mean in our classroom.\u00a0 The notion of selflessness held a surprising appeal.\u00a0 I hope we can live up to this word.<\/p>\n<p>Follow up: Did find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/matthieu_ricard_how_to_let_altruism_be_your_guide#t-240267\">this video<\/a> that I hope to show next week.\u00a0 And I think I have a book of Peter Singer essays that might have a piece or two that&#8217;s accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altruistic. Not the word I might have come up with.\u00a0 Not a word I&#8217;d heard before in all of our efforts across the years to come up with words we want to be known by.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a word I tend to hear students using.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a word I hear friends and colleagues using that often. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day Three<\/span> <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":{"_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-1501","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-od","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}