{"id":4533,"date":"2015-05-21T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T18:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2015-05-31T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T22:04:41","slug":"this-is-why-i-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2015\/05\/21\/this-is-why-i-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why I teach."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had just returned from one of the many meetings that I have during the week to find a Facebook instant message from a former student of mine. I hadn&#8217;t seen or heard from Juan directly since a few months after he graduated. It was great to hear that he was doing fantastic and that I was able to play a small role in his success. At the end of the day this is essentially why I continue to teach. None of my other responsibilities as a professor even comes close to the satisfaction of helping students find their way in life, both personally and professionally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thanksprof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4534\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thanksprof.jpg\" alt=\"thanksprof\" width=\"450\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thanksprof.jpg 528w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thanksprof-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of my other responsibilities as a professor even comes close to the satisfaction of helping students find their way in life, both personally and professionally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,9,6,18,4,335,2],"tags":[15,51,31,411,748,760,761,747,630],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-education","category-laguardia","category-lifestyle","category-new-media","category-tech-job-scene","category-techtraining","category-technology","tag-community-college","tag-cuny","tag-curriculum","tag-digital-media","tag-guidance","tag-laguardia","tag-new-media","tag-student","tag-technology-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}