{"id":1329,"date":"2008-04-26T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T11:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jochenenglish.de\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2009-09-05T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T16:54:19","slug":"did-i-miss-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Did I Miss Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 is a ques\u00adti\u00adon fre\u00adquent\u00adly asked by                                                        stu\u00addents after miss\u00ading a class. Here is a poem by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.utoronto.ca\/canpoetry\/wayman\/poem5.htm\">Cana\u00addi\u00adan poet Tom Way\u00adman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did I Miss Anything<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not\u00adhing.  When we rea\u00adli\u00adzed you weren\u2019t here<br>\nwe sat with our hands fold\u00aded on our desks<br>\nin silence, for the full two&nbsp;hours<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ever\u00ady\u00adthing.  I gave an exam worth<br>\n40 per cent of the gra\u00adde for this term<br>\nand assi\u00adgned some rea\u00adding due today<br>\non which I\u2019m about to hand out a quiz<br>\nworth 50 per&nbsp;cent<\/p>\n<p>Not\u00adhing.  None of the con\u00adtent of this cour\u00adse<br>\nhas value or mea\u00adning<br>\nTake as many days off as you like:<br>\nany acti\u00advi\u00adties we under\u00adta\u00adke as a class<br>\nI assu\u00adre you will not mat\u00adter eit\u00adher to you or me<br>\nand are wit\u00adhout purpose<\/p>\n<p>Ever\u00ady\u00adthing.  A few minu\u00adtes after we began last time<br>\na shaft of light des\u00adcen\u00added and an angel<br>\nor other hea\u00adven\u00adly being appeared<br>\nand reve\u00ada\u00adled to us what each woman or man must do<br>\nto attain divi\u00adne wis\u00addom in this life and<br>\nthe here\u00adaf\u00adter<br>\nThis is the last time the class will meet<br>\nbefo\u00adre we disper\u00adse to bring this good news to all peo\u00adp\u00adle<br>\non&nbsp;earth<\/p>\n<p>Not\u00adhing.  When you are not pre\u00adsent<br>\nhow could some\u00adthing signi\u00adfi\u00adcant&nbsp;occur?<\/p>\n<p>Ever\u00ady\u00adthing. Con\u00adtai\u00adned in this class\u00adroom<br>\nis a micro\u00adc\u00adosm of human exis\u00adtence<br>\nassem\u00adbled for you to query and exami\u00adne and pon\u00adder<br>\nThis is not the only place such an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty has been<br>\ngathered<\/p>\n<p>but it was one&nbsp;place<\/p>\n<p>And you weren\u2019t here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 is a ques\u00adti\u00adon fre\u00adquent\u00adly asked by stu\u00addents after miss\u00ading a class. Here is a poem by the Cana\u00addi\u00adan poet Tom Way\u00adman: Did I Miss Any\u00adthing Not\u00adhing. When we rea\u00adli\u00adzed you weren\u2019t here we sat with our hands fold\u00aded on our desks in silence, for the full two&nbsp;hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,64,10],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alg","tag-literature","tag-poetry","tag-schuler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}