{"id":434,"date":"2008-01-04T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-01-04T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:49:06","slug":"you-never-forget-a-good-teacher-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"You never forget a good teacher: part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a reply from my former teacher! It really gladdened me to get home on a Friday evening, in the dark, with the rain sheeting as Pacific storms are wont to do, and find a letter postmarked &#8220;Exeter &#038; Devon&#8221; and addressed to me in familiar, tiny, reverse-side-of-the-fountain-pen-nib scrawl.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling all warm inside now with good memories and the joy of a friendship and correspondence rekindled. And in the kind of coincidence that the universe seems to throw ones way remarkably often, he related to me that just before Xmas he&#8217;d been at a party where he met a contemporary and friend of mine of old, and had asked after me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a reply from my former teacher! It really gladdened me to get home on a Friday evening, in the dark, with the rain sheeting as Pacific storms are wont to do, and find a letter postmarked &#8220;Exeter &#038; Devon&#8221; and addressed to me in familiar, tiny, reverse-side-of-the-fountain-pen-nib scrawl&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}