{"id":395,"date":"2013-04-17T17:33:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T17:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=395"},"modified":"2013-04-22T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:48:23","slug":"the-new-thing-coming-into-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/04\/17\/the-new-thing-coming-into-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;new thing&#8221; coming into focus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I haven\u2019t gotten back to the daily writing routine as I should.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been busy doing homework and those TPAs.\u00a0 On the homework front, I think I\u2019m doing \u201ctoo good\u201d a job.\u00a0 My teacher is asking me to rewrite one of my assignments because it is too long and too detailed, but also not in the format he&#8217;s seeking.\u00a0 OK then\u2026 I\u2019ll do less rigorous work and I&#8217;ll stick to the format.\u00a0 I have this teacher for my next (and last) two modules, so I\u2019d better learn what he expects so I don\u2019t fail any of his courses.\u00a0 I would hate for my failure of this current one unit class I\u2019m taking to be the reason why I didn\u2019t get a teaching credential on time!\u00a0 I need to get the credential on time because I suspect I\u2019ll be employed for next school year.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I just submitted an application for a job that I am qualified for\u2026 except for the credential.\u00a0 The job seems to suit me just fine.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty excited about it \u2013 it\u2019s in my wife\u2019s district, and the school is close, so no major commute.\u00a0 Well today, I got even better news!\u00a0 Two more jobs just opened up today at the local High School (where my kids attend) and Middle School (where my wife works and where I just finished my student teaching assignment).\u00a0 I just applied to them as well.\u00a0 Alas, I found out later in the day that due to some regulation, the district must post the jobs, even though those jobs have already been filled.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping that the first job I applied to is also not already filled, and that the district was merely fulfilling a regulation\u00a0\u00a0 I can only hope I get an interview at that first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I haven\u2019t gotten back to the daily writing routine as I should.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been busy doing homework and those TPAs.\u00a0 On the homework front, I think I\u2019m doing \u201ctoo good\u201d a job.\u00a0 My teacher is asking me to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/04\/17\/the-new-thing-coming-into-focus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}