{"id":217,"date":"2010-07-29T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T00:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post217"},"modified":"2011-07-24T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T19:56:35","slug":"writing-and-the-ego-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post217","title":{"rendered":"Writing and the ego boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>First off, EIGHT comments on how cute my hair was? I have to tell you, that completely made my weekend.\u00a0 Seriously. THANK YOU FOR THE EGO BOOST! We all need that, every once in a while. The validation made the price of getting the hair cut worth it&#8230; mostly!<\/p>\n<p>I have spent the past two weeks\u00a0 in a district writing program. All LA\/English teachers are required to take this in the first 3-4 summers of their time in the district, so I just wanted to get it over with.<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty good. I got some good ideas &#8211;not TWO WEEKS WORTH of ideas, mind you&#8211; that I could probably use here or there.<\/p>\n<p>I also wrote a piece for our &#8220;anthology&#8221;, as we were sometimes playing the role of writing students. I will share pieces of it on here. It&#8217;s fairly long, so I&#8217;ll have to break it into parts. It is mostly true to life, BUT give me some lee-way, as I was only 8 or 9 when it happened and I wanted to make the flow work out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all. First off, EIGHT comments on how cute my hair was? I have to tell you, that completely made my weekend.\u00a0 Seriously. THANK YOU FOR THE EGO BOOST! We all need that, every once in a while. The validation made the price of getting the hair cut worth it&#8230; mostly! I have spent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-side","category-just-here","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}