{"id":45292,"date":"2019-06-15T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=45292"},"modified":"2019-06-15T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T11:36:01","slug":"an-english-instructors-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/an-english-instructors-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"An English Instructor&#8217;s Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doubt the amount of debt to past poetic lives I owe, doubt a preening, narcistic ego,<br \/>\nDoubt that I may be a self-conscious liar, exaggerating stories that never did transpire,<br \/>\nDoubt that I may long for fame, craving the recognition a great novelist or poet gains.<br \/>\nDoubt that I have the intellectual skills, the depth of passion, or the imagery that thrills.<br \/>\nBut never doubt whatever transpires, I can teach rhet.-comp. students all skills required.<br \/>\nNever doubt the hours spent marking pronoun disagreement and student discontent,<br \/>\nFor I will not exaggerate, nightly I\u2019m always home grading stacks of papers by 7:30 or 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubt the amount of debt to past poetic lives I owe, doubt a preening, narcistic ego, Doubt that I may be a self-conscious liar, exaggerating stories that never did transpire, Doubt that I may long for fame, craving the recognition a great novelist or poet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45292","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45295,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45292\/revisions\/45295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}