{"id":5282,"date":"2021-05-20T02:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2022-03-21T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:44:21","slug":"thanks-i-needed-that-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2021\/05\/20\/thanks-i-needed-that-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, I needed that today."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every time I start questioning my choice of career, and I have been doing it a lot lately, I get a message like this from a former student and start to think that maybe the last 20 years of my professional life haven&#8217;t been a total waste of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187885992_10226661079571828_7546826860895395446_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"601\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187885992_10226661079571828_7546826860895395446_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187885992_10226661079571828_7546826860895395446_n.jpg 825w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187885992_10226661079571828_7546826860895395446_n-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187885992_10226661079571828_7546826860895395446_n-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this message from a former student so maybe the last 20 years of my life haven&#8217;t been a total waste of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,9,18,111,335,2],"tags":[113,873,760,14,761,765],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-education","category-laguardia","category-new-media","category-itp","category-techtraining","category-technology","tag-interactive-telecommunications-program","tag-itp-2","tag-laguardia","tag-laguardia-community-college","tag-new-media","tag-itp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","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=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}