{"id":117,"date":"2005-10-14T18:45:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T02:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2005\/10\/separation-pangs\/"},"modified":"2005-10-14T18:45:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T02:45:30","slug":"separation-pangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2005\/10\/separation-pangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Separation Pangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"separationpangs.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/files\/2009\/03\/separationpangs.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here my son gives his best show of separation pangs, perhaps for my benefit? After one week at this new nursery school, he now only begins to cry when I say goodbye at the school door, but then he reportedly quits crying after a few minutes and begins to play with joy.<\/p>\n<p>With two gifted teachers and ten children (11 now, including my son) ranging from ages 2-6, this school (re)creates the extended family so hard to find in today&#8217;s industrialized, dehumanized, westernized world. I am thankful he can grow up playing outside in nature along with his new mothers, brothers, and sisters. The headmaster is a strawberry farmer, and the students grow and feast on cherry tomatoes and other delicacies from the school garden.<\/p>\n<p>Long live one-room schools!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here my son gives his best show of separation pangs, perhaps for my benefit? After one week at this new nursery school, he now only begins to cry when I say goodbye at the school door, but then he reportedly quits crying after a few minutes and begins to play with joy. With two gifted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordinary-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}