{"id":1263,"date":"2013-02-04T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2023-06-07T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:16:34","slug":"hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2013\/02\/04\/hero\/","title":{"rendered":"hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1400 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/729375593_06df2ca8d6_o-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/729375593_06df2ca8d6_o-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/729375593_06df2ca8d6_o-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/729375593_06df2ca8d6_o-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/729375593_06df2ca8d6_o.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I spent the last two weekends in a classroom. nine hours each day, learning about things I&#8217;m interested in.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s been a hard year so far. I&#8217;m averaging about 65 hours a week at work, and I&#8217;m not even screwing around. it&#8217;s busy, and I&#8217;m exhausted, and I could use a break in a huge way.<\/p>\n<p>instead of catching up on a little sleep, I get up on Saturday and Sunday at 5am to do my homework. I get to class at 8am. I listen. I learn. I participate. I&#8217;m still tired.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also happy, because learning is what drives me.<\/p>\n<p>my dad is a teacher. always has been, always will be. one of the most important lessons he&#8217;s passed on to me is that I should never, ever stop learning, because we can always, always better ourselves and pass that on to others to make things better for them.<\/p>\n<p>he practices what he preaches. I can only hope I can do half of what he&#8217;s done to help people in the life I have left.<\/p>\n<p>thanks, dad. you may not know of all the gifts you&#8217;ve given me, but this is one of them, and I cherish it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last two weekends in a classroom. nine hours each day, learning about things I&#8217;m interested in. it&#8217;s been a hard year so far. I&#8217;m averaging about 65 hours a week at work, and I&#8217;m not even screwing around. it&#8217;s busy, and I&#8217;m exhausted, and I could use a break in a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}