{"id":33021,"date":"2022-03-18T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33021"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:10:54","slug":"letter-from-isaiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33021","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Isaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30095042@N00\/51943831158\/sizes\/m\/<\/p>\n<p>I tempt fate when I neglect my blog. I want it to be read but my readership, modest as it is, needs something to read. I used to think nothing of writing a half dozen posts a day when I was consumed by the Red Plan. For the past two years I&#8217;ve slacked off considerably. I blame my neglect on my practicing French. Two hours a day now is not a stretch. Often I&#8217;ll write in French or English for an hour with my penpal. Duolingo also takes an hour. Today at my Heart rehab I spent fifty minutes on treadmills watching Peppa the Pig in French. I can follow the conversation for the most part now unlike four years ago when I was first introduced to her. I do plan on speaking passable French at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>I have also sacrificed my blog posts for weekly columns in the Duluth Reader. That is no small job. I really do try to write cleanly and a typical column is given five to eight major reedits and takes a good day to complete. I rarely give that kind of attention to a blog post. I have to write one tonight and while I have dozens of ideas I have yet to get one started. That will make tomorrow a challenge. I&#8217;m scheduled to attend a Republican District Convention in the morning and afternoon and I&#8217;m scheduled to go to the production of E.L. Doctorow&#8217;s play Ragtime.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t missed a column for six months including the month I spent in France last Autumn. I think consistency is important. So after this peek at my life now I&#8217;ll get to work on the Reader.<\/p>\n<p>The Peek?<\/p>\n<p>Its the sweet little letter at the beginning which Isaiah handed me at lunch on Wednesday when I watched a school lunch like a hawk. None of the teachers had the decency that day to get sick or go to Doctor&#8217;s appointments so I was given miscellaneous things to do. And I have written at least one column in the Reader about a school lunch gone wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora03\/likefatherlikeson.htm\">My son was the culprit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah was a younger student whose class I took over a few weeks ago when the elementary kids remained in school and the older &#8220;Junior Academy&#8221; students went back home due to a Covid scare. I read one of my favorite books in his class Amos and Boris. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Books%20Page\/Gorilla%20Slippers\/amos%26bor.htm\">Holy clam and cuttlefish!<\/a> Listen to the wave for a two second listen to my reading style.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah is the son of one of my son&#8217;s best elementary school friends. They often spent time at each other&#8217;s homes. I knew Isaiah was in the picture because I&#8217;ve bumped into his Dad every now and then. Apparently Isaiah learned a little about me from his Dad and he really liked the book I read. <\/p>\n<p>Any way a staff member who came with Isaiah explained that his class was writing letters and that Isaiah wanted to write a letter to me. I was touched. In my time I&#8217;ve gotten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RajG7Dliias\">a lot of letters and cards from kids<\/a> in classes but this was the first one in years.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute teaching hasn&#8217;t all been a joy. A lot of our children have been knocked off course over the two years of Covid and a lot of our teachers are working on fumes.  I am glad I&#8217;ve gotten a look at how our schools are coping up close. It only strengthens my resolve to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30095042@N00\/51943831158\/sizes\/m\/ I tempt fate when I neglect my blog. I want it to be read but my readership, modest as it is, needs something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,35,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33024,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33021\/revisions\/33024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}