{"id":321,"date":"2009-09-24T18:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T23:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2010-06-11T08:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:36:12","slug":"classroom-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/classroom-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Classroom experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was all set to write something that I observed today in my son&#8217;s classroom. I thought it was funny, and a cheap and easy way to make an blog post on a day when I&#8217;m tired an a bit uninspired (but still wanting to meet the goal of posting every day for a month).<\/p>\n<p>Then, I thought twice about what I was going to say, and thought of something that Alex said recently:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I get it out to say it, I&#8217;m not going to say it. I&#8217;m going to put it back in my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As parents, we all \u00a0have to make the decisions that seem right to us day after day, minute after minute. The last thing any parent needs is yet another person slinging judgment&#8230;even if it is just to make a little joke.<\/p>\n<p>So, I declined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was all set to write something that I observed today in my son&#8217;s classroom. I thought it was funny, and a cheap and easy way to make an blog post on a day when I&#8217;m tired an a bit uninspired (but still wanting to meet the goal of posting every day for a month).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/classroom-experience\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Classroom experience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alex","tag-parenting","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-5b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4524,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/tasting-and-testing-lays-potato-chips\/","url_meta":{"origin":321,"position":0},"title":"Tasting and Testing: Lay&#8217;s Potato Chips","author":"admin","date":"August 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I love to cook at home, but I also like to try all sorts of weird food products. 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