{"id":101,"date":"2007-09-04T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/is-your-teaching-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-a-back-to-school-metaphor"},"modified":"2016-10-02T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T22:10:59","slug":"is-your-teaching-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-a-back-to-school-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/is-your-teaching-glass-half-full-or-half-empty-a-back-to-school-metaphor","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Teaching Glass Half Full or Half Empty? A Back to School Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following short video is either a metaphor for how I feel on the first day of school or an image of how the students see me&#8211;I haven&#8217;t quite decided yet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xtIsvoGkIbM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>In any case, the tag line says everything there is to say about teaching: A Glass and a Half Full of Joy.\u00c2\u00a0 For those of you starting school today, especially first-year teachers, may your year be full of wonder, inspiration and joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following short video is either a metaphor for how I feel on the first day of school or an image of how the students see me&#8211;I haven&#8217;t quite decided yet. In any case,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[124,68],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-first-day-of-school","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-1D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}