{"id":169,"date":"2020-02-07T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/?p=169"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:17:55","slug":"thinking-on-reverence-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/2020\/02\/07\/thinking-on-reverence-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking on reverence for learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wild Geese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Oliver<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to be good.<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to walk on your knees<\/p>\n<p>for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.<\/p>\n<p>You only have to let the soft animal of your body<\/p>\n<p>love what it loves.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the world goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain<\/p>\n<p>are moving across the landscapes,<\/p>\n<p>over the prairies and the deep trees,<\/p>\n<p>the mountains and the rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,<\/p>\n<p>are heading home again.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,<\/p>\n<p>the world offers itself to your imagination,<\/p>\n<p>calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting<\/p>\n<p>over and over announcing your place<\/p>\n<p>in the family of things.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Geese Mary Oliver &nbsp; You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/2020\/02\/07\/thinking-on-reverence-for-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking on reverence for learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}