{"id":4047,"date":"2015-03-02T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2015-08-08T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T06:22:16","slug":"half-life-as-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/02\/half-life-as-educator\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Life as Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4049\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconarchive.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4049\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cake-icon.png\" alt=\"From IconArchive.\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cake-icon.png 128w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cake-icon-120x120.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From IconArchive.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the publication of this blog post I turn 48 years of age. What makes this age cool for me is that it marks exactly half my life spent educating youth in grades 4 through 8.\u00c2\u00a0 I started teaching 4th and 5th grade in South Central Los Angeles in 1991. I was 24 years old.<\/p>\n<p>This is my 24th year teaching so that makes it exactly half my life thus far spent teaching. I thought that was pretty cool. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you take into account that before I started teaching I had spent most of my first 24 years on Earth as a student either in Pre-K through 12 grade or in college then I&#8217;ve been in schools most of my life! Aside from odd jobs here and there to make money I haven&#8217;t really done anything else but education. Does that make me an expert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the publication of this blog post I turn 48 years of age. What makes this age cool for me is that it marks exactly half my life spent educating youth in grades 4 through 8.\u00c2\u00a0 I started teaching 4th and 5th grade in South Central Los Angeles in 1991. I was 24 years old. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/02\/half-life-as-educator\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[338,2944,3495],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news","tag-educator","tag-personal","tag-teaching","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}