{"id":6030,"date":"2023-05-26T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2023-06-03T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T19:16:00","slug":"he-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2023\/05\/26\/he-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"He Did It"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the students had walked out onto the field… After the band stopped playing Pomp and Circumstance<\/em>… After the sun went down behind the bleachers… After the students had walked across the stage… After the tossing of mortar boards… After the fireworks… After all that, I saw Jon amid the blue. <\/p>\n

“I’ll be right back,” I said to Mr. Edgar.<\/p>\n

Jon saw me coming.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Hasan!” he shouted. <\/p>\n

“Jon!” I said, returning his broader than usual smile. <\/p>\n

He was standing with Isabel. She and he and a group of rascals were in my fifth period class a year ago. She did well. He did not. And he made a point to remind me that I had failed him whenever the two of them passed my classroom this year, although he would do it with a smile on his face as we bumped fists and they continued walking down the hall. <\/p>\n

“Mr. Hasan,” he said. “I did it!”<\/p>\n

“You did it,” I said and held my fist up for a bump.<\/p>\n

“I need to give you a hug,” he said. <\/p>\n

So we hugged each other. And Isabel and I hugged, too.<\/p>\n

“You did it!” I said to him again, pointing a finger right at him. “You did it.”<\/p>\n

Isabel smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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