{"id":94,"date":"2020-04-10T06:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/?p=94"},"modified":"2020-04-10T06:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:13:35","slug":"thursday-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/2020\/04\/10\/thursday-april-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Instagram reminded me that today 4 years ago, I was grading my first stack of papers as faculty at KPU. I took a picture of the stack of final reports with a nice iced coffee perched on top. Oh, what I wouldn&#8217;t give for a cold brew and a salted chocolate chip cookie from Platform 7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My students&#8217; final projects are beginning to roll in. Many of them have chosen to create archives of their time during Coronavirus, and I&#8217;m just blown away. I can barely write a few blog posts, but they&#8217;re producing such smart, touching, raw, creative work. I&#8217;m really lucky to have my job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other than that, it was a day of small pangs of sadness. For the past two days, I&#8217;ve taken Dot to an elementary school to run around and each time, we&#8217;ve encountered other kids around Dot&#8217;s age. They&#8217;ve grown wary of each other so quickly. One little girl just stared at Dot. Dot ran behind my legs and softly repeated, &#8220;It&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s okay.&#8221; How will these kids ever learn to play with each other again? I worry for my sweet, sensitive girlie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Instagram reminded me that today 4 years ago, I was grading my first stack of papers as faculty at KPU. I took a picture of the stack of final reports with a nice iced coffee perched on top. Oh, what I wouldn&#8217;t give for a cold brew and a salted chocolate chip cookie from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}