{"id":414,"date":"2009-04-02T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/02\/of-ganymedes\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T16:28:43","slug":"of-ganymedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/02\/of-ganymedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Ganymedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teachers job is often thankless&#8230;I have known many who started the job with enthusiasm which declined as I watched&#8230;often exponentially. <\/p>\n<p>But today, my day was made when I was presented with a set of jeans and T shirt by my erstwhile students.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they knew the drudge of a teacher since they were all three of them teachers themselves in other engineering colleges (and studying for M. Tech. here in TKM College of Engineering)<\/p>\n<p>This is a new thing to me. 25 years of unrelenting sameness of students&#8217; psychology turned me a cynic. Today the cynic is baffled. The optimist in me says &#8220;I told you so&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway my next classes will be a bit more sincere. The bright young faces who will sit before me in future classes will not listen to a jaded pessimist&nbsp; but one who believes that his voice will be engraved in impressionable minds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=a1e309ed-6a5e-8ffd-a63a-111c94f09f32\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teachers job is often thankless&#8230;I have known many who started the job with enthusiasm which declined as I watched&#8230;often exponentially. But today, my day was made when I was presented with a set of jeans and T shirt by my erstwhile students. Maybe they knew the drudge of a teacher since they were all&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/02\/of-ganymedes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,81,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kerala","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}