{"id":12,"date":"2008-06-12T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2008\/06\/12\/back-from-maternity-leave\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T20:19:00","slug":"back-from-maternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/2008\/06\/12\/back-from-maternity-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from maternity leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well&#8230;it&#8217;s been awhile.  Far too long.  I have been busy at home with a new baby boy, and have completely let this blog go.  Letting blogs die a quiet death is a common blogger experience, I think.  But this one is not quite dead yet.  I am back from maternity leave, and though much of this summer will be spent working on research, I plan to add some new posts on teaching here as well.  Coming back to the classroom after a year without teaching is, I hope, going to be an interesting and refreshing experience.  I am excited to start up again, and catch up on the world of pedagogy blogging, in philosophy and other subjects.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMy research this summer will focus on a paper about Michel Foucault&#8217;s views of the political role of intellectuals.  This, actually, is relevant to teaching philosophy:  part of what I am thinking about in that paper is what philosophers might do to &#8220;educate&#8221; their audience, to bring about social and political change, to be active citizens in their own communities.  So I will be posting a bit about that, as well as about my thoughts on preparing for my upcoming courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well&#8230;it&#8217;s been awhile. Far too long. I have been busy at home with a new baby boy, and have completely let this blog go. Letting blogs die a quiet death is a common blogger experience, I think. But this one is not quite dead yet. I am back from maternity leave, and though much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-this-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chendricks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}