{"id":5527,"date":"2014-01-29T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2014-01-29T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T22:32:15","slug":"the-great-chalk-event-and-cat-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/the-great-chalk-event-and-cat-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The great chalk event&#8230;and cat food&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my teaching days, I was presented a note from admin that said we should order supplies now because it was a &#8216;use it or lose it&#8217; appropriation from the legislature. So&#8212;I ordered something like a dozen boxes of chalk, because, well, teachers use it. Unfortunately our order list didn&#8217;t mean &#8216;boxes&#8217; like people would use. What I had delivered to my classroom was a pickup-sized chunk of the white cliffs of Dover.<\/p>\n<p>I took a lot of ribbing for that. People would drop by to borrow a box of chalk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I got tired of hunting down our kitties&#8217; favorite chow, which is Whiskas Purrfectly Fish\/Chicken. Store&#8217;s always out of it. Or I get one box. So&#8230;I have Amazon Prime, which means free shipping on almost everything.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered four boxes of chicken and 6 or 8 of fish.<\/p>\n<p>It came.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the chalk. When they mean boxes, they mean boxes each containing half a dozen boxes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We are well-supplied in catfood for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my teaching days, I was presented a note from admin that said we should order supplies now because it was a &#8216;use it or lose it&#8217; appropriation from the legislature. So&#8212;I ordered something like a dozen boxes of chalk, because, well, teachers use it. Unfortunately our order list didn&#8217;t mean &#8216;boxes&#8217; like people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}