{"id":130604,"date":"2023-09-02T13:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130604"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:09:14","slug":"hour-5-ode-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-5-ode-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5 &#8211; Ode to Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is there a more noble profession than a teacher?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Constructing the minds of a new generation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Architects of lesson plans, Philosophers of education<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Janitors of muck and grime, Laborer of politics<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patience of a saint, discipline of a general<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every role is another job and every job is another role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet as busy as they are, the power they wield is next to null.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The world has little thanks for them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little appreciation for the wars they win before they begin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they\u2019re expected to do it all with a smile on their face<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So here is an ode to the educator, a tradesman of all trades<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May their seeds take root, and their trees bear fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is really all we can hope for. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a more noble profession than a teacher? Constructing the minds of a new generation Architects of lesson plans, Philosophers of education Janitors of muck and grime, Laborer of politics Patience of a saint, discipline of a general Every role is another job and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130608,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130604\/revisions\/130608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}