{"id":56,"date":"2012-09-14T15:56:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-09-14T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:56:37","slug":"swim-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/2012\/09\/swim-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Swim Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I officially will never stop smelling like chlorine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again: SWIM LESSONS. I&#8217;ve taken at least five showers within the past 24 hours and I cannot shake the distinct smell of chlorine from myself. Lessons at the community rec center started Tuesday. So far I&#8217;ve made it through the week with only getting punched in the eye once, and a few minor bruises. Teaching swim lessons is not an easy job!<\/p>\n<p>Despite the hardships that teaching lessons entails, there&#8217;s always those kids that make it worth while. I teach a group lesson of five 7 year olds and they are the most energetic and adorable children I think I have ever taught. I&#8217;ll be honest, I&#8217;m not the best with kids. I&#8217;m the youngest in my family so I don&#8217;t really have that knack for &#8216;youngsters&#8217;. But teaching swim lessons definitely shines a new light on the younger generation.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the rest of my lessons get better, too, so I can make it out of these next three weeks alive. For now, I&#8217;m just going to enjoy the weekend and relax&#8230; Oh, and watch the Hawks beat the Pathers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend everyone!<br \/>\nGO HAWKS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I officially will never stop smelling like chlorine. It&#8217;s that time of year again: SWIM LESSONS. I&#8217;ve taken at least five showers within the past 24 hours and I cannot shake the distinct smell of chlorine from myself. Lessons at the community rec center started Tuesday. So far I&#8217;ve made it through the week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}