{"id":2737,"date":"2013-08-26T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2013-08-26T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:11:14","slug":"first-day-of-first-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2737","title":{"rendered":"First Day of First Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/9601565010\/\" title=\"001 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3830\/9601565010_5df3ce9558.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"001\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a mixed-age classroom, which I like very much, but when I saw my little guy sitting there flanked by older and bigger boys my tummy knotted up. I wanted to grab each person in that classroom, child and adult, by the shoulders and hiss &#8220;That is my <em>heart<\/em> sitting there on that rug in an orange polo shirt, do you understand? He is my naked, beating heart. Be <em>kind<\/em> to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But instead I gave him a high five and I walked away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a mixed-age classroom, which I like very much, but when I saw my little guy sitting there flanked by older and bigger boys my tummy knotted up. I wanted to grab each person in that classroom, child and adult, by the shoulders and hiss &#8220;That is my heart sitting there on that rug in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}