{"id":140,"date":"2013-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/08\/21\/post-133-eighty-essays\/"},"modified":"2013-08-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T00:00:00","slug":"post-133-eighty-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/21\/post-133-eighty-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-133: Eighty Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:right;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"z-index:10;position:relative;float:right;;clear:right;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1377092339.jpg\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; border-width:1px;\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorderBlack\"><\/a><span style=\"display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\"><font size=\"1\">By Paul Consella; Stolen from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/directory\/o\/out_box.asp\">here<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;display:block;\">My &#8220;final grand push&#8221; succeeded. All 75 essays in my stack of last night  are now corrected, commented, posted online, photocopied and given to  the students. I slept two hours. <\/p>\n<p><span>Naturally, <\/span><span><\/span>I was glad to have <em>that<\/em> out of the way. This calls for a <em>&#8220;Phew!<\/em><span>&#8220;<\/span>, right? I  knew I&#8217;d still have to knock out a few more stragglers, but only a few.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my astonishment when I checked the website again today. Many new essay submissions! The fresh to-do-pile now stands tall at<em>&#8230;.<\/em><em style=\"\">eighty<\/em>.\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">I was once in fifth grade. We read a fantasy story, parts of which have stuck with me ever since. At one point, the characters are given &#8220;subtraction stew&#8221; to eat. The more you eat, the hungrier you get. This reminds me a lot of that.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Consella; Stolen from here My &#8220;final grand push&#8221; succeeded. All 75 essays in my stack of last night are now corrected, commented, posted online, photocopied and given to the students. I slept two hours. Naturally, I was glad to have that out of the way. This calls for a &#8220;Phew!&#8220;, right? I knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}