{"id":1,"date":"2014-08-13T17:32:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T17:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-05-14T02:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T02:02:47","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Summer Writing and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/d-in-canoe-at-dawn-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-215\" src=\"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/d-in-canoe-at-dawn-small-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/d-in-canoe-at-dawn-small-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/d-in-canoe-at-dawn-small-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/d-in-canoe-at-dawn-small-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/d-in-canoe-at-dawn-small-453x340.jpg 453w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/d-in-canoe-at-dawn-small.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A lot of people get the wrong idea about teachers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They seem to think that because the students are released from classes, teachers spend their summers in repose and relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to say that I haven&#8217;t enjoyed some less hectic hours at the seashore or taking my family camping, but I know most teachers like myself take this time to update our skills and prepare for a new year.<\/p>\n<p>One of the exciting aspects of teaching is the opportunity to reflect, modify and change one&#8217;s approach. Teaching is a career of constant practice and improvement. It is true that it is more of an evocation, because one has to love learning to be constantly learning.<\/p>\n<p>A lot like being a writer. You spend every waking moment working on a new project or refining an old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people get the wrong idea about teachers&#8230; They seem to think that because the students are released from classes, teachers spend their summers in repose and relaxing. I&#8217;m not going to say that I haven&#8217;t enjoyed some less hectic hours at the seashore or taking my family camping, but I know most teachers like myself take this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,22,3],"tags":[23,25,24,73],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-graphic-novel","category-research","category-writing","tag-summer","tag-teaching","tag-vacation","tag-writing"],"wppr_data":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}