{"id":10,"date":"2005-10-08T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2005-10-08T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T17:37:47","slug":"sat_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/sat_day\/","title":{"rendered":"SAT Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here in my little temporary office while a couple hundred kids are having the worst day of their lives.  Yes, it&#8217;s the SAT&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<p>These tests get longer and more stupid all the time.  It&#8217;s really an endurance test for these poor <s>suckers<\/s> kids.  I&#8217;m so glad this kind of thing is behind me.<\/p>\n<p>But running the show here isn&#8217;t exactly fun, either.  I&#8217;ve already had a parent yell at me and another interrogate me.  I&#8217;ve also had a kid refuse to take the test he&#8217;s supposed to and others demand special treatment.  Gotta stay firm.  But it&#8217;s kinda funny.  The ones who insist on doing things their way are just screwing themselves over.  And I don&#8217;t have time to argue with them and convince them that they are risking their scores being cancelled.  They are making their own beds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here in my little temporary office while a couple hundred kids are having the worst day of their lives. Yes, it&#8217;s the SAT&#8217;s! These tests get longer and more stupid all the time. It&#8217;s really an endurance test for these poor suckers kids. I&#8217;m so glad this kind of thing is behind me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordplay.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}