{"id":2038,"date":"2011-02-24T00:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T06:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2011-02-24T00:11:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T06:11:17","slug":"yeah-i-can-do-that-for-the-rest-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I Can Do That For The Rest Of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so, this isn&#8217;t about porn or about Magic cards, but that&#8217;s because things happened. Grandma is in the hospital with a broken hip. It&#8217;s, as I put it in a conversation earlier, an un-good situation. You&#8217;ll also have to excuse me if I don&#8217;t want to write about it at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>However, after seeing my Grandma in the hospital, I went to my Poetry Workshop, as I do on Wednesdays. After being all emotional in the parking lot, I went to class and did my workshop thing. I cracked jokes. I literally had the whole group pausing to laugh and catch their breath at several points. I gave out some good feedback. When I finally left, I realized that I felt a lot better. I was happy.<\/p>\n<p>This coming after the night before, where I covered for Lynn and ran her workshop by myself, and had a complete and utter blast. It was so much fun, and I think I did a great job at running that, as well. The night before that, I wrote a speech about pedagogy just for the hell of it and delivered it, which was an enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, there&#8217;s a lot of work and bullshit involved in education, and I&#8217;m never going to be rich. But seriously, the more I do this kind of thing? The more I get involved and get to really do it? The more I know this is, by far, the right career path for me. I can do this over and over again. I can enjoy it. I know what I want to be when I grow up.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s something, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, first order of business before all that: get everyone back to healthy status. Here&#8217;s hoping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so, this isn&#8217;t about porn or about Magic cards, but that&#8217;s because things happened. Grandma is in the hospital with a broken hip. It&#8217;s, as I put it in a conversation earlier, an un-good situation. You&#8217;ll also have to excuse me if I don&#8217;t want to write about it at the moment. However, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}