{"id":1338,"date":"2011-11-04T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2011-11-04T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:39:25","slug":"erstwhile-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/prized\/erstwhile-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Erstwhile Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1339\" title=\"Teacher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Teacher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" \/>When I taught high school English, I loved working with students. \u00a0They would say amazing things and we were certain to laugh hard at something unexpected.\u00a0 On Mondays, we had Weekend Update, when each of us would tell highlights from our latest experiences, from track records and visits to non-custodial parents, to bike jousting and late night trips to the <a href=\"http:\/\/vernondiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Diner<\/a>.\u00a0 I reminded them I was a mandatory reporter, and if they told me anything that made me concerned for their health or safety, I would follow up on it.\u00a0 That cut down on the party stories, but not completely.\u00a0 It was a great way to get a glimpse of what was going on in their real lives, a constant reminder to me that school is only part of the picture.\u00a0 It was also a cool way to build trust and get to know each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1233\" title=\"Prized-Button-Tiny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Prized-Button-Tiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"74\" \/>The <em>Prized<\/em> blog tour takes me to <a href=\"http:\/\/inthenextroom.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/author-interview-with-caragh-m-obrien.html\" target=\"_blank\">In the Next Room<\/a> today, where Zo\u00eb asks how teaching influenced my writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught high school English, I loved working with students. \u00a0They would say amazing things and we were certain to laugh hard at something unexpected.\u00a0 On Mondays, we had Weekend Update, when each of us would tell highlights from our latest experiences, from track records and visits to non-custodial parents, to bike jousting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}