{"id":1947,"date":"2016-07-13T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2016-07-14T04:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T11:43:22","slug":"cant-leave-a-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Leave a Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150111.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1948\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s funny. I thought that leaving the classroom would mean leaving teaching and students. But nearly two months later, it seems I\u2019ve done neither.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I got an email from a young lady wanting me to take a look at her poems. Earlier this week I visited with <a href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/local-news\/2016-06-20-0\" target=\"_blank\">Chrystelle <\/a>who is about to return to Africa to bury her husband (by the way, she has received phenomenal support from her friends and the Amarillo community).<\/p>\n<p>And the teacher in me keeps reading books on retirement\u2014not just for me\u2014but so I can pass along the good stuff to you.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Os Guinness (The Call, 2003) is right: You can retire from a job, but you never retire from a calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s funny. I thought that leaving the classroom would mean leaving teaching and students. But nearly two months later, it seems I\u2019ve done neither. Last night I got an email from a young lady wanting me to take a look at her poems. Earlier this week I visited with Chrystelle who is about to return [&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-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}