{"id":5149,"date":"2018-08-07T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2018-08-07T17:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T23:30:34","slug":"in-eight-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/08\/07\/in-eight-days\/","title":{"rendered":"In Eight Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She stood at the front of the room speaking into a microphone. It had been a long day, and she was a good speaker to end it with. She was talking about reaching English language learners.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In eight days,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;the children are coming. You <em>have<\/em> to be ready!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was some nervous laughter. I briefly got chills down my spine. (Don&rsquo;t ask. I don&rsquo;t control them.)<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The children are coming,&rdquo; she repeated. &ldquo;The children are coming! The CHILDREN are coming!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They are indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She stood at the front of the room speaking into a microphone. It had been a long day, and she was a good speaker to end it with. She was talking about reaching English language learners. &ldquo;In eight days,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;the children are coming. You have to be ready!&#8221; There was some nervous laughter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5152,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}