{"id":6495,"date":"2024-11-14T19:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T01:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2024-11-14T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T01:26:48","slug":"a-better-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2024\/11\/14\/a-better-look\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair, Trudy had a point. When she said she didn&rsquo;t like my hair (her comment wasn&rsquo;t quite that gentle), I couldn&rsquo;t really argue, since it had indeed been past time for a hair cut. That was last week. It&rsquo;s still past time.<\/p>\n<p>So I&rsquo;m in my classroom this morning as the morning crew starts showing up. There&rsquo;s a handful of them that come in to just hang out before the day starts, some are students of mine, others are friends and friends of friends.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mister Hasan,&rdquo; one of them said. &ldquo;Your hair looks good. Did you do something to it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recalling her analysis from last week, I texted Trudy, to relay this alternative viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just sayin&rsquo;&rdquo; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A third opinion is needed,&rdquo; she replied.<\/p>\n<p>Moments laster, someone else came into the room, one of the young (female) math teachers. She looked at me from the doorway. &ldquo;Mr. Hasan,&rdquo; she said loudly, making sure all the students could hear her. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re looking quite dapper today &mdash; your hair, and look at that shirt!&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I relayed this (third) opinion back to Trudy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is so weird,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I should have gotten a better look at you before you left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Um, thank you?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair, Trudy had a point. When she said she didn&rsquo;t like my hair (her comment wasn&rsquo;t quite that gentle), I couldn&rsquo;t really argue, since it had indeed been past time for a hair cut. That was last week. It&rsquo;s still past time. So I&rsquo;m in my classroom this morning as the morning crew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495"}],"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=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}