{"id":612,"date":"2004-01-12T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/612"},"modified":"2004-01-12T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2004-01-12T17:51:06","slug":"first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/612","title":{"rendered":"First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

These children,
\nin their beats there is somethin’ missing
\nyou know I’m listening
\na fragile kinship blossoming
\nI’m not saying I know it all
\nbut this generation hit a wall
\nI’ll stumble but I’ll never fall
\non my knees but I’ll never crawl…<\/i><\/p>\n

It is the first day of a new semester, and the classrooms are full as they’ll ever be for the next 3 1\/2 months. “Your syllabus can be found online”<\/i> because of the cuts in the State education budget, our papers are too expensive to print. The professors don’t look frazzled yet, and everyone is wearing new clothes.<\/p>\n

It is like I’m back in elementary school. Without the budget cuts and the latte-sipping, cigarette-smoking, cell-phone-carrying UIC<\/a> students. \ud83d\ude42 Ah, I love the smell of too much cologne in the morning…hahaha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These children, in their beats there is somethin’ missing you know I’m listening a fragile kinship blossoming I’m not saying I know it all but this generation hit a wall I’ll stumble but I’ll never fall on my knees but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}