{"id":7731,"date":"2013-07-17T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2013-07-17T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:01:05","slug":"difficult-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/difficult-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficult news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7732\" alt=\"DSC_0089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0089.jpg\" width=\"157\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0089.jpg 157w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0089-134x300.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a>We have been on a small family vacation and returned last night to some sad news. Mark&#8217;s first grade teacher, Mrs Alice Crankshaw, passed away early in July.<\/p>\n<p>Mark is not upset, but has wondered aloud, &#8220;Where do you think she put the present we made for her?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am very sad that she is gone; we had hoped that she would be Mark&#8217;s second grade teacher. I respect her so much for the way she worked to meet Mark&#8217;s needs at school. She called us four or five times throughout the year to talk to me about things she had observed about Mark. This meant a lot to me. She welcomed me to her classroom to teach art and read with her students. I observed that she loved her students; I observed that she was very dedicated and generous.<\/p>\n<p>I will remember her as a blessing in our lives because she made the transition to a new state and public school much easier to bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been on a small family vacation and returned last night to some sad news. Mark&#8217;s first grade teacher, Mrs Alice Crankshaw, passed away early in July. Mark is not upset, but has wondered aloud, &#8220;Where do you think she put the present we made for her?&#8221; I am very sad that she is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/difficult-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Difficult news<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7733,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}