{"id":4988,"date":"2022-03-09T18:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2022-03-09T18:56:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:56:31","slug":"a-special-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/03\/09\/a-special-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our daily newspaper when I was growing up would publish on Saturdays a page of commentaries, advice columns, comics, etc., by teenagers. Although I can\u2019t remember the exact subject of my commentary \u2013 the unfortunate phrase \u201cthe rising tide of communism\u201d sticks in my mind \u2013 I do remember my intense pride of authorship. For the first time, I felt avenged on all the adults who had ever undervalued me. I deliberately showed the clipping, with my name and age, 13, in boldface at the bottom, to Mr. Eakely, my eighth-grade English teacher. \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d he said, pointing at the number. \u201cYour IQ?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie Good is the author of Failed Haiku, a poetry collection that is the co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest and scheduled for publication in summer 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our daily newspaper when I was growing up would publish on Saturdays a page of commentaries, advice columns, comics, etc., by teenagers. Although I can\u2019t remember the exact subject of my commentary \u2013 the unfortunate phrase \u201cthe rising tide of communism\u201d sticks in my mind \u2013 I do remember my intense pride of authorship. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7941,10813,1016,10818,10820,6050,10819,14,10814,9128,10817,9479,10821,41,7349,10822,2922,5567,1725,6488,2271,10815,4692,10816,4631,10812,5432,601],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-adults","tag-advice-columns","tag-age","tag-authorship","tag-boldface","tag-bottom","tag-clipping","tag-comics","tag-commentaries","tag-commentary","tag-communism","tag-eight-grade","tag-english-teacher","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-iq","tag-mind","tag-name","tag-newspaper","tag-number","tag-page","tag-phrase","tag-pride","tag-rising-tide","tag-saturdays","tag-special-education","tag-subject","tag-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}