{"id":21844,"date":"2016-08-13T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21844"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:36:21","slug":"teacher-angst-night-terrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/teacher-angst-night-terrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Angst, Night Terrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Teacher Angst, Night Terrors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Each year before school starts, I have horrible teacher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nightmares. These are images from just a few.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too many students, not enough desks,<\/p>\n<p>Forgot to read instructions for a state test;<\/p>\n<p>Hard to teach when I didn\u2019t plan a lesson,<\/p>\n<p>A cellphone (my own) goes off during testing;<\/p>\n<p>Have to ice-skate to my classroom,<\/p>\n<p>Without previewing, I show an R-rated YouTube;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not wearing a bra and my blouse is see-through,<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s a middle school teacher to do?<\/p>\n<p>When nobody\u2019s listening,<\/p>\n<p>Teacher\u2019s defeated eyes are glistening;<\/p>\n<p>Students are drinking wine and smoking cigarettes,<\/p>\n<p>Wake up soon from these nightmarish vignettes!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a new school year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher Angst, Night Terrors Each year before school starts, I have horrible teacher \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nightmares. These are images from just a few. &nbsp; Too many students, not enough desks, Forgot to read instructions for a state test; Hard to teach when I didn\u2019t plan a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21856,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions\/21856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}