{"id":3027,"date":"2013-09-21T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2013-09-21T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:48:03","slug":"teachers-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"Teacher&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"220px-Socrates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/220px-Socrates.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3028\" alt=\"220px-Socrates\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/220px-Socrates.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Teacher&#8217;s Lament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you really loved teaching,\u201d the senator said,<br \/>\u201cYou\u2019d do it for free.\u201d<br \/>I replied, \u201cAnd if you valued education,<br \/>You\u2019d be willing to pay me.\u201d<br \/>Our actions show our values.<br \/>We spend more<br \/>On what\u2019s important to us,<br \/>Whether we spend<br \/>Time or money.<br \/>Teachers are paid<br \/>For the time we spend in class,<br \/>Not for the hours<br \/>We spend preparing,<br \/>Grading papers,<br \/>Counseling,<br \/>Comforting,<br \/>Encouraging,<br \/>Learning,<br \/>Trying to inspire.<br \/>That time is spent<br \/>Because we love teaching.<br \/>\u201cYou\u2019d do it for free\u201d<br \/>Shows how much<br \/>Value is placed on education.<br \/>To him, the work we do<br \/>Is worth nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Phil Ray Jack<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}