{"id":7140,"date":"2013-05-31T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2013-05-31T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:27:08","slug":"oops-late-night-retrobruxist-friday-53113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/oops-late-night-retrobruxist-friday-53113\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops, Late-Night Retrobruxist Friday 5\/31\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across a blog post today titled <a href=\"http:\/\/jenhatmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/worst-end-of-school-year-mom-ever\">Worst End of School Year Mom Ever<\/a>. I can relate. I think most teachers feel like bad teachers at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Forge-Moms-Signature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7144\" alt=\"Forge Mom's Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Forge-Moms-Signature.png\" width=\"432\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Forge-Moms-Signature.png 432w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Forge-Moms-Signature-300x141.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main reason: standardized testing. It&#8217;s The Worrrrrrrrrrst. Bad for kids, sure, but as\u00a0I tell the kids: &#8220;At least you get to DO something. I just have to SIT THERE.&#8221; In fact, read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dannyfranks.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/29\/i-got-middle-schooled\/\">I Got Middle Schooled<\/a>\u00a0for a little taste of what teachers and proctors go through. It&#8217;s horrifying and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>***********<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three years<\/strong> ago, I shared my experiences with <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/warts-and-all-time\/\">anti-depressants<\/a>. The magic bullet I mentioned was amino acids&#8212;a monster truck load of them per day&#8212;which I took for several years, and they definitely helped. But they were super-duper-expensive and not-at-all covered by my super-duper-crappy health insurance. I weaned myself off them within the last six months, and I think I&#8217;m doing OK. I have my moments, but between CrossFit, food choices, and workin on mah shit, I&#8217;m maintaining a pretty healthy level of sanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two years<\/strong> ago, I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/how-old-would-you-guess-this-guy-is\/\">All-Time Worst Prospect<\/a> on OKCupid. Seriously though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A year<\/strong> ago, a <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/there-it-was-with-a-broom-sweepin\/\">shocking news story<\/a> broke.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across a blog post today titled Worst End of School Year Mom Ever. I can relate. I think most teachers feel like bad teachers at the end of the year. Main reason: standardized testing. It&#8217;s The Worrrrrrrrrrst. Bad for kids, sure, but as\u00a0I tell the kids: &#8220;At least you get to DO something. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/oops-late-night-retrobruxist-friday-53113\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oops, Late-Night Retrobruxist Friday 5\/31\/13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,14,12],"tags":[36,93,132,39,120],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-dating","category-gluten-freek","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head","tag-dating-2","tag-depression","tag-hermersexuerls","tag-okcupid","tag-retrobruxist-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}