{"id":169,"date":"2012-06-06T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.142.75.173\/~trekkie1\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:35:07","slug":"blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/06\/blessed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started writing this post in 2009! Trawling through my site I found the draft and thought it would be cool to post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This post has been in the works for a week or so. Last week I was lucky enough to meet a guest lecturer who is good friends with my high school chemistry teacher. I was so happy to be able to pass along a simple message to the man who is one of the inspirations to me being here (I&#8217;m typing this in one of the Moray House PC labs).<\/p>\n<p>Douglas, our chemistry lecturer quotes Frank McCourt when talking about feed back from pupils, students (in Scotland) never tell you &#8220;That was a great lesson&#8221; etc but what they do say is &#8220;See you next week!&#8221; this supposedly is the equivalent of &#8220;Well done, sir&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The message? &#8220;Thank you&#8221;. Simple, huh? It made me so happy just to let him know that. I don&#8217;t claim that I was a special student (far from it), I also don&#8217;t claim that he&#8217;s going to think I am going to be the greatest teacher on Earth but I think he&#8217;ll be quietly pleased to know that his influence from 15 years ago is still appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started writing this post in 2009! Trawling through my site I found the draft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-teaching-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}