{"id":31,"date":"2009-09-08T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/08\/the-power-of-a-simple-word\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T21:18:00","slug":"the-power-of-a-simple-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/08\/the-power-of-a-simple-word\/","title":{"rendered":"the power of a simple word"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremypettis\/3011977554\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3053\/3011977554_169599d48a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremypettis\/3011977554\/\">YES<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jeremypettis\/\">jeremyhead<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It is said that when John Lennon visited Yoko Ono&#8217;s art exhibit, he climbed a ladder to see a single word on a paper attached to the ceiling.  That word was&#8230;Yes.  He was so impressed with an artist who would have such positive thoughts that he decided to meet Yoko, and then, well the rest is history.  All words have magical powers.  The power to inspire, the power to intimidate, the power to woo or soothe&#8230;And words take on different powers depending on how they are spoken or how they appear in print.  And most importantly, it is the knowledge of words that gives us such power over circumstances and surroundings. Empower yourself!  Learn a new word today!<\/p>\n<p>I am a Business\/Computer teacher in Ontario.  Literacy is of interest to me in that it is a necessary component of student success.  Equally important is that my own son was touched by the power and magic of learning to read.  It opened the door to a whole world that would have remained silent to him and allowed him to share his sometimes chaotic, sometimes frightening thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Gagnon &#8211; Orleans, ON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YES, originally uploaded by jeremyhead. It is said that when John Lennon visited Yoko Ono&#8217;s art exhibit, he climbed a ladder to see a single word on a paper attached to the ceiling. That word was&#8230;Yes. He was so impressed with an artist who would have such positive thoughts that he decided to meet Yoko, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}