{"id":1565,"date":"2012-08-18T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2012-08-18T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:15:55","slug":"fallen-face-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"I Haven&#8217;t Fallen Off the Face of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1567\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 650px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=1567\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1567\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1567\" title=\"100_5432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/100_5432-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/100_5432-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/100_5432-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Random picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I just wanted to let all of you know I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fallen off the face of the earth that, oh whoops, turned out to be flat after all. I just done got myself into a bit of a fix here, on account of a busted sink, a busted oven (yes, again!!!), a baby-girl starting her first year of school as well as two boys returning to school, an extra writing assignment, and oh yeah, a job that requires me to impart a wisdom I suspect I may have lost somewhere along the way to a group of students who are three days away from figuring out that their English teacher might just be a little coo-coo.<\/p>\n<p>This whole situation is making me flirt with run-ons.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got tons to share just as soon as I find my mind and a way to add an extra 7.2 hours to the day.<\/p>\n<p>Bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>And stay tuned for post on things like:<\/p>\n<p>1. The dork factor<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My oven is my nemesis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and other tales from the land of Kitchen<\/p>\n<p>3. Holy cow, I just spied on my kids at school: How did I grow up to be <em>that<\/em> parent?<\/p>\n<p>4. What happened to the world while I was on a giant maternity leave? No, seriously?<\/p>\n<p>5. Faking it: A mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\/wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\/teacher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\/writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\/person at the grocery store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tale<\/p>\n<p>6. The folly in giving a kindergartener money to buy her own food while you work a football game<\/p>\n<p>7. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too old and possibly too pre-pre-arthritic for heels at work, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going down with a fight (in the literal sense).<\/p>\n<p>8. Who are all these \u00e2\u20ac\u0153young\u00e2\u20ac\u009d teachers, and why are there so many more of them than last time I taught?<\/p>\n<p>I know many of you are busy as well, but I hope everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surviving the back-to-school rush. And if I find the secret to adding 7.2 hours to the day, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll blog about it.<\/p>\n<p>Right after I patent it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hey, I just wanted to let all of you know I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fallen off the face of the earth that, oh whoops, turned out to be flat after all. I just done got myself into a bit of a fix here, on account of a busted sink, a busted oven (yes, again!!!), a baby-girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023,1,4],"tags":[1238,1027,105,100,1237,1239,1217],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-back-to-school","tag-going-back-to-work","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-kids-going-back-to-school","tag-my-lifes-a-whirlwind","tag-returning-to-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}