{"id":568,"date":"2008-03-01T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2008\/03\/01\/ten_points_for_style_minus_several_million_for\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T14:07:07","slug":"ten_points_for_style_minus_several_million_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2008\/03\/01\/ten_points_for_style_minus_several_million_for\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten points for style, minus several million* for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So on Thursday, one of my classes had to hand in their rewritten essays. Naturally, a few people didn&#8217;t show up, presumably under the (mistaken) impression that if I don&#8217;t see them, I don&#8217;t notice that their papers are not on time.<br \/>\nTen minutes into the class period, there&#8217;s a knock on the door. I open the door to find one of the missing students, who hands me her paper, coughs, and then says she can&#8217;t stay <em>because she has bronchitis<\/em>, but she wanted to get her paper in.<br \/>\nSo yes, kudos for demonstrating that you respect my deadlines and take my class seriously, but I&#8217;m not sure about the whole pulmonary infection thing. Also, I believe this is <em>your <\/em>plague rat.<br \/>\n*<i>I have a leftover, unopened roll of rockets from Hallowe&#8217;en that goes to the person who first correctly identifies the reference in the title.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on Thursday, one of my classes had to hand in their rewritten essays. Naturally, a few people didn&#8217;t show up, presumably under the (mistaken) impression that if I don&#8217;t see them, I don&#8217;t notice that their papers are not on time. Ten minutes into the class period, there&#8217;s a knock on the door. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2008\/03\/01\/ten_points_for_style_minus_several_million_for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ten points for style, minus several million* for&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-learning-curve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}