{"id":1720,"date":"2016-04-11T19:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2016-04-12T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:26:08","slug":"she-bought-my-dinner-19-class-days-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"She Bought My Dinner: 19 class days left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1721\" \/><\/a>When I asked the waiter for my ticket, he pointed to an empty table and said they had paid my tab.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a first. A student bought me dinner. Anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn\u2019t sure how to respond. Should I send her a thank you note? Write a comment at the bottom of her essay\u2014next to the grade?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must get your criteria in the thesis statement. 65\u2014Oh, and thanks for dinner!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt sheepish, awkward, embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>But, also, noticed, appreciated, surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I put the note on her essay. \u201cI\u2019ve paid for a lot of student meals,\u201d I wrote, \u201cbut never had one buy mine. You made my day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it didn\u2019t look too awkward placed alongside her 92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I asked the waiter for my ticket, he pointed to an empty table and said they had paid my tab. That\u2019s a first. A student bought me dinner. Anonymously. Wasn\u2019t sure how to respond. Should I send her a thank you note? Write a comment at the bottom of her essay\u2014next to the grade? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}