{"id":2104,"date":"2020-06-11T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2020-06-11T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:55:49","slug":"well-the-year-is-over-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/2020\/06\/11\/well-the-year-is-over-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Well&#8230; the year is over and"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am retiring from teaching ART!  I have been an Art Teacher with the Dearborn Public Schools for 42 plus YEARS!!!  I have been thinking about retiring for awhile-  a lot of students and I have shared our lives together!  My daughter, my only child, lives in Chicago and I am thinking that I may move there in the near future to be closer to her.  This pandemic made me realize that it was time to move on from doing what I love to being with who I love.  It was really hard not to see her for such a long time- breaks a moms heart!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students will always be very special to me, I will always have crayons, paper and markers in my car &#8220;just in case&#8221;, and I will cherish all the smiles and memories from my years in Dearborn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks SO MUCH for sharing your most precious gifts with me, I appreciate that beyond words.  May you all be safe and well, may you always be creative and find joy in the little things and may you always Be Kind!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the very bottom of my very large heart- THANKS for the great memories!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/564x\/fb\/de\/6f\/fbde6f69548f13508333346ed9e65b68.jpg\" alt=\"You may have noticed (or maybe not) that I haven't been blogging much in the last 4 months. We were having our house renovated, and it was, overall, a great experience, but left little time for blo...\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am retiring from teaching ART! I have been an Art Teacher with the Dearborn Public Schools for 42 plus YEARS!!! I have been thinking about retiring for awhile- a lot of students and I have shared our lives together! My daughter, my only child, lives in Chicago and I am thinking that I may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/zechar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}