{"id":143,"date":"2011-06-20T16:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T00:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=143"},"modified":"2011-06-20T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T00:21:55","slug":"schools-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2011\/06\/20\/schools-out\/","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2011\/06\/P10005931-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1000593\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2011\/06\/P10005931-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2011\/06\/P10005931-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This year I could not have asked for better experience in teaching.\u00a0 I was blessed by God just to have a job, but as the year went on I realized that I was blessed in many more ways.\u00a0 The students at Heritage high school made such an impact on my life.\u00a0 It was neat to have students who were respectful and willing to learn, but also willing to let me engage with them on a personal level.\u00a0\u00a0Hearing that we are going\u00a0to Africa\u00a0raised many questions and opened the door for me to share my faith.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I had so many great students who filled my day with joy.\u00a0 It is always hard to leave home and be away from your kids as you head off to work, but it made it easier to do this when I felt like I was making a difference in students&#8217; lives.\u00a0 I will not miss the early mornings, the long nights, the grading, and the rough days, but I will miss the students!\u00a0 As I left my classroom on Thursday all I could do was just thank God for the year that I had.\u00a0 In a year of transition, God put me in just the right place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I could not have asked for better experience in teaching.\u00a0 I was blessed by God just to have a job, but as the year went on I realized that I was blessed in many more ways.\u00a0 The students at Heritage high school made such an impact on my life.\u00a0 It was neat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-updates-and-news","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}