{"id":155,"date":"2019-12-29T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-01-01T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T19:00:39","slug":"life-lessons-class-is-in-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/2019\/12\/29\/life-lessons-class-is-in-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Lessons: Class is in Session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I was an English teacher for 17 years. In my early years of teaching, I made it a requirement that each student memorizes a poem. When we analyzed John Donne&#8217;s Holy Sonnet X, <em>Death Be Not Proud<\/em>, I told them this would be a poem they would remember and draw upon when they need it. I inserted this poem into Rebecca&#8217;s funeral program because <em>I<\/em> needed it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Death be not proud, though some have called thee<br>Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,<br>For, those, whom thou think","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was an English teacher for 17 years. In my early years of teaching, I made it a requirement that each student memorizes a poem. When we analyzed John Donne&#8217;s Holy Sonnet X, Death Be Not Proud, I told them this would be a poem they would remember and draw upon when they need it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/2019\/12\/29\/life-lessons-class-is-in-session\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life Lessons: Class is in Session&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-grief-and-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navejar.com\/Beck\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}