{"id":1123,"date":"2005-02-27T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/i-just-called-my-7th-grade-teacher\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:37","slug":"i-just-called-my-7th-grade-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/i-just-called-my-7th-grade-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"I just called my 7th grade teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to talk about my junior high.  Cult-like love fest?  Group therapy?  a bunch of kids who went through puberty without teasing each other?  <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it was a little different than what I hear from other people&#8217;s stories.  We were a small class.  12, of us graduated from 8th grade.  We were bonded though a bizarre set of adversity and a real respect for each other and a lot of love.  This is probably partly why I hated high school so much. Also, I think it has made me a bit credulous and probably has something to do with why I&#8217;m so susceptible to reality-distortion.  Cuz why would you be mean to somebody else when we&#8217;re clearly all in this together, right?  We all have crazy drama and crazy stress and we&#8217;ve got to be there for each other and if we help each other though the hard times . . ..  Can&#8217;t we all just get along?  Distrust wasn&#8217;t necessary.<br \/>\nAnyway, this is not a normal thing for catholic schools.  It was all because of Mrs. Behler.<br \/>\nAnd now back to work on my thesis.  I&#8217;m going to be reciting random numbers (and wearing my Italian suit) at a free concert tonight at 7:00 in  Crowell Concert Hall at Wesleyan University.  It&#8217;s part of a knee play from <em>einstein on the Beach<\/em> by Glass.<br \/>\nTag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/7th Grade\" rel=\"tag\">7th Grade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how to talk about my junior high. Cult-like love fest? Group therapy? a bunch of kids who went through puberty without teasing each other? Yeah, it was a little different than what I hear from other people&#8217;s stories. We were a small class. 12, of us graduated from 8th grade. We were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/i-just-called-my-7th-grade-teacher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I just called my 7th grade teacher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}