{"id":965,"date":"2011-08-02T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2018-02-08T04:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:46:52","slug":"day-1-down-179-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/day-1-down-179-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 down . . . 179 to go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 is down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to take it all in stride &#8211; especially the part where I asked my young students what their favorite part of the day was. Two of them answered with enthusiasm &#8220;PIANO!&#8221; (which I didn&#8217;t teach), and the other one sighed contentedly and said, &#8220;The white board crayons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-966 size-medium\" title=\"I promise they picked out those textbooks on their own too!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/small3day1-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"I promise they picked out those textbooks on their own too!\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/small3day1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/small3day1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/small3day1-1-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/small3day1-1-175x117.jpg 175w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/small3day1-1.jpg 1555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My husband assures me that this is not a reflection on my teaching abilities. He was a straight &#8216;A&#8217; student, and when asked that question as a boy, he always replied with gusto,\u00a0 &#8220;PE and Lunchtime!&#8221; (Go figure, my kids used to say &#8220;Car Pool line!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So rather then being offended at this end to day 1, I suppose I will congratulate myself that apparently my kids are well on their way to normalcy. I must be doing a good job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-967 size-large\" title=\"Well on their way to genius IQ. Should I tell the tween I posted this?\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smallsilly-1-700x532.jpg\" alt=\"Well on their way to genius IQ. Should I tell the tween I posted this?\" width=\"700\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smallsilly-1-700x532.jpg 700w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smallsilly-1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smallsilly-1-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smallsilly-1.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 is down. I&#8217;m trying to take it all in stride &#8211; especially the part where I asked my young students what their favorite part of the day was. Two of them answered with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,7,8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}