{"id":13000,"date":"2026-10-06T01:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=13000"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:50:42","slug":"teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=13000","title":{"rendered":"Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0849-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0849-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0849-768x675.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0849.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I probably live this poem everyday because I taught high school English for 15 years. The experience, the lessons, the special students, the comrades in arms never leave me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t play the violin but I do play the piano now that I have time for lessons and a teacher of my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m standing on the banks of Hades, though introducing students to Greek mythology was one of my favourite escapes. I still look for Orion in the night sky when the aspects are right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0387-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0387-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0387-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0387-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_0387.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Snowy words in winter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English grammar was another favourite especially a quick fill in class on Latin derivatives and although I never taught the ablative absolute it still haunts me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have many of the gifts I was given both physical and emotional. Few were apples, but one was a dog I called Apples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still one of my greatest joys was the opportunity to read some of my favourite poems to a classroom of thirty or more students and have the room pause in silence at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is Margaret you morn for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably live this poem everyday because I taught high school English for 15 years. The experience, the lessons, the special students, the comrades in arms never leave me. I don\u2019t play the violin but I do play the piano now that I have time for lessons and a teacher of my own. I\u2019m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13008,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13000\/revisions\/13008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}