{"id":16961,"date":"2014-09-03T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T01:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16961"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T01:02:11","slug":"new-day-new-school-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16961","title":{"rendered":"New Day, New School, New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a mass email and Facebook post went out to all of the teachers who left my school last year.*  In it, we were wished a great start to a new year and words about missing seeing one another were shared.  It triggered a huge outpouring of grief in me over missing out on seeing all of my former staff comrades, all of my former students, their families, their little brothers and sisters.  I guess the community at large&#8230;  It gave me a huge case of the sads, and I got a little worried about my year.<br \/>\nThe worrying was needless.<br \/>\n<strong>NEEDLESS<\/strong><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_16966\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image3-412x550.jpg\" alt=\"This was my super-duper happy face as I left day one of the 2014-2015 school year!\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16966\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image3-412x550.jpg 412w, http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image3-150x200.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was my super-duper happy face as I left day one of the 2014-2015 school year!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nSo, the sads yesterday?  HA!  Today at about 2:00, I looked up at my class of buzzing 2nd graders.  They were busily cutting out superheroes with scissors, picking up scraps, chatting quietly with friends and I was smacked upside the heart with pure <strong>joy<\/strong>.  I am so happy that I can&#8217;t even believe it.  I was sobbing when I told Bradley about my day, but not with tears of grief, sorrow or anxiety, I was sobbing happily.  With joy.<br \/>\nThese people:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_16965\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image2-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"2nd Grade Superstars\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16965\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image2-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image2-550x412.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2nd Grade Superstars<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nI&#8217;m telling ya.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a super lucky teacher this year.  I&#8217;ve struck gold.  \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n*A tiny bit of backstory- last year the teachers at my school were given a rare opportunity to switch schools.  Several of us were excited about change and a fresh start, so we set out to find new homes.  Most of us landed at different schools, but we keep in touch and are a nice, little, supportive community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a mass email and Facebook post went out to all of the teachers who left my school last year.* In it, we were wished a great start to a new year and words about missing seeing one another were shared. It triggered a huge outpouring of grief in me over missing out on seeing &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16961\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-littlejohnt","4":"post-16961","6":"format-standard","7":"category-diary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16969,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions\/16969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}