{"id":2647,"date":"2013-04-25T04:52:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2013-04-25T04:52:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:52:59","slug":"counting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Counting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason Kuniko and I have been counting down the workdays left until the long holiday. \u00a0Every morning we drag ourselves out of bed at 4:30 am and say, &#8220;X more days&#8230;&#8221;, like some strange kind of overworked zombies. \u00a0Then I move downstairs to get some coffee going while Kuniko hits the shower.<\/p>\n<p>Two days left.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday after work I shared a train ride with one of my new students. \u00a0He originally was so overwhelmed the first few classes, but I&#8217;m now seeing lots of improvement as he gets comfortable. \u00a0Yesterday he held a conversation with me in English voluntarily after work in front of a train full of people. \u00a0Those are monster steps in the right direction, and I was very happy to talk with him and see his confidence grow.<\/p>\n<p>OK, off to the shower to complete the waking process and then head to work. \u00a0Two more days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason Kuniko and I have been counting down the workdays left until the long holiday. \u00a0Every morning we drag ourselves out of bed at 4:30 am and say, &#8220;X more days&#8230;&#8221;, like some strange kind of overworked zombies. \u00a0Then I move downstairs to get some coffee going while Kuniko hits the shower. Two [&hellip;]<\/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":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-GH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}