{"id":392,"date":"2011-08-28T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T03:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-09-18T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:42:27","slug":"surprise-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post392","title":{"rendered":"Surprise thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To whomever sent Jared a copy of The Hunger Games really for me and for my classroom, thank you. Jared kept your identity a secret as requested.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of my amazon wishlist. I had the my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wishlist\/2079CZXQ3QKNM\/ref=wl_web\">Classroom Book Wish List from Amazon<\/a> up for some time on my blogroll, but never received anything from it for my classroom. I actually took it down a few weeks ago because 1) I didn&#8217;t feel like updating it and 2) I figured nobody ever looked at it anyways.<\/p>\n<p>I went ahead and updated it today and put it back because I usually lose around $200-$400 worth of books every year to maintain my classroom library. There are a lot of people who argue that I shouldn&#8217;t have that &#8220;library&#8221; in my classroom, but it&#8217;s worth it to me because it helps the kids have books in their hands. As a teacher of writing and reading, isn&#8217;t that pretty important? Especially for the kids who can&#8217;t go to the real libraries, or even the school libraries for whatever reasons?<\/p>\n<p>So, whoever thought of me and my students. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I truly appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll end with a quote from a very wise man:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can&#8217;t read them.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-Mark Twain<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To whomever sent Jared a copy of The Hunger Games really for me and for my classroom, thank you. Jared kept your identity a secret as requested. It reminds me of my amazon wishlist. I had the my Classroom Book Wish List from Amazon up for some time on my blogroll, but never received anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-happy-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}