{"id":742,"date":"2014-06-26T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=742"},"modified":"2014-07-10T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:15:39","slug":"saying-good-bye-to-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2014\/06\/26\/saying-good-bye-to-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Time getting short at the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found out this morning that the teacher I\u2019m replacing temporarily (?) is one of two history teachers for the Academies at our school (Engineering school and Travel &amp; Tourism school). I couldn\u2019t be more thrilled! This is exactly where I would like to teach if I got a full-time position. God definitely has my attention: I\u2019m wondering if this is where He is going to eventually place me, or if He still has somewhere else in mind. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Barbara and Courtney went to the gorge to take pictures of the waterfall while I mowed the lawn. Afterwards, we all went swimming. This was my first, and probably my last, time in the lake. It was cold (50 degrees), but once in, it wasn\u2019t bad. While I was in, I found the leak in our motorboat (the Eliminator); the speed gauge had been ripped off and a screw was out of a hole.<\/p>\n<p>After our swim, we went to see my grandma for the last time this trip. I really like the place that she\u2019s staying at now, but I also miss her home where I spent my childhood. Since we were in Geneva, where grandma now resides, we went out to a favorite pizza place and then shopped at Walmart. On the way home, we stopped off at Seneca Farms (ice cream).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out this morning that the teacher I\u2019m replacing temporarily (?) is one of two history teachers for the Academies at our school (Engineering school and Travel &amp; Tourism school). I couldn\u2019t be more thrilled! This is exactly where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2014\/06\/26\/saying-good-bye-to-the-lake\/\">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-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}