{"id":146,"date":"2015-10-16T23:23:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/16\/blog-challenge-poem\/"},"modified":"2015-10-16T23:23:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:23:42","slug":"blog-challenge-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2015\/10\/16\/blog-challenge-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog challenge: poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Josette Le Blanc’s blog yesterday she put up a post, in poetry, that really resonated. It was about the friction inside about trying to make things better in the classroom and in one’s own classroom. Hers is better and more concise<\/a>. Mine’s self indulgent but it’s my blog and I choose what goes up. Maybe you’ve had learners like mine.<\/i>
\nNobody Dies<\/b>
\nI want to tell them that nobody dies,
\n“Nobody dies,” I tell them;
\nEveryone laughs, nobody dies.
\nI want to tell them it’s OK to be shy,
\n“It’s OK to be shy.”
\nNobody speaks but nobody dies.
\nI want to tell them nobody cares,
\n“Nobody cares
\nAbout mistakes you make:
\nThey’re too busy worrying about their own.”
\nNobody’s scared but nobody dares so
\nNobody speaks but nobody dies.
\nI want to tell them nobody knows,
\n“Nobody knows the perfect way,
\nSo go ahead and try your own;
\nI’ll let you know about mine,
\nWhich you’re perfectly free to decline,
\nI won’t leave you to struggle alone.”
\nNobody knows who
\nSuddenly speaks but
\nSomebody dared
\nAlthough they were scared
\nAnd nobody cares
\nAnd actually
\nNobody dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Josette Le Blanc’s blog yesterday she put up a post, in poetry, that really resonated. It was about the friction inside about trying to make things better in the classroom and in one’s own classroom. Hers is better and more concise. Mine’s self indulgent but it’s my blog and I choose what goes up. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-2m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}