{"id":922,"date":"2019-07-11T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/?p=922"},"modified":"2019-07-11T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:31:11","slug":"lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/2019\/07\/11\/lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been spending eight hours a day every day in the classroom. We do a lot of talking. Which is great. I am hearing the language much more clearly and I am even able to pick up dialectical variants. My vocab and confidence are making huge leaps forward. But it is exhausting. During my lunch break I need silence. So, I go down to the river. I brought my fly rod with me this year, and I am glad I did. Hearing the river murmur as I eat my lunch is a great way to hit reset and get ready for another sustained push towards fluency. Here is a little guy I caught and promptly let go. Of course, I caught a much bigger brown trout (br\u00e9ac donn) but I didn\u2019t get a photo. Sure, if you believe <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-923\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/files\/2019\/07\/11792E78-F3B5-4D32-B455-4049FE844B43-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/files\/2019\/07\/11792E78-F3B5-4D32-B455-4049FE844B43-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/files\/2019\/07\/11792E78-F3B5-4D32-B455-4049FE844B43-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been spending eight hours a day every day in the classroom. We do a lot of talking. Which is great. I am hearing the language much more clearly and I am even able to pick up dialectical variants. My vocab and confidence are making huge leaps forward. But it is exhausting. During my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/2019\/07\/11\/lunch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}