{"id":421,"date":"2013-05-25T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=421"},"modified":"2013-05-31T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:51:16","slug":"the-start-of-the-end-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/05\/25\/the-start-of-the-end-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The start of the end of school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School\u2019s back for me: six weeks of Monday through Thursday classes followed by six weeks of Tuesday\/Thursday classes and then I\u2019m done!\u00a0 My last three classes are the introductory classes that I should have taken at the beginning of my first semester here (I joined NHU after the first six week module in the fall, so I missed these classes).\u00a0 These classes are now ridiculously simple for me and I find that I really don\u2019t want to attend.\u00a0 They\u2019re sort of a waste of time for me now.\u00a0 My teachers know this too so I\u2019ve sort of become a T.A. for them and they\u2019re cutting me a lot of slack.<\/p>\n<p>My bronchitis continues.\u00a0 It\u2019s very hard to shake.\u00a0 All week I\u2019ve been coughing, especially in the evenings when I have classes.\u00a0 As a result, I decided to take it easy on my substitute schedule.\u00a0 I only worked on Monday and Friday in classes that I knew to be excellent.\u00a0 After Monday\u2019s sub job had totally wiped me out, I was going to take the rest of the week off, but my favorite Art teacher at the High School called me personally and asked if I could fill-in.\u00a0 A request like that is hard to turn down.\u00a0 We watched \u201cLife of Pi\u201d while most of her classes went with her on a field trip.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, I will try to rest.\u00a0 My wife and daughter are going camping while my son and I stay home for this three day weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School\u2019s back for me: six weeks of Monday through Thursday classes followed by six weeks of Tuesday\/Thursday classes and then I\u2019m done!\u00a0 My last three classes are the introductory classes that I should have taken at the beginning of my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/05\/25\/the-start-of-the-end-of-school\/\">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-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}