{"id":5971,"date":"2021-05-26T20:53:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T02:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2023-06-03T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T19:16:00","slug":"the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2021\/05\/26\/the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Remember,&rdquo; I told them. &ldquo;You have a week to get late homework to me. Anything later than that falls into the abyss.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I drew a picture. I attached it to the message. In class the next day, I taped it up in the front of the room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2021\/05\/i-PR8sVMx\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2021\/05\/i-PR8sVMx\/0\/98e96189\/M\/IMG_9756_HEIC-M.jpg\" alt=\"don't throw your homework into the abyss\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s this?&rdquo; I asked the students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The abyss,&rdquo; someone said.<\/p>\n<p>From this, and from the flood of late homework that arrived over the next few days, I think it&rsquo;s fair to say they got the message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Remember,&rdquo; I told them. &ldquo;You have a week to get late homework to me. Anything later than that falls into the abyss.&rdquo;&nbsp; I drew a picture. I attached it to the message. In class the next day, I taped it up in the front of the room. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s this?&rdquo; I asked the students. &ldquo;The abyss,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/5971"}],"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=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}