{"id":213,"date":"2010-09-05T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-09-05T01:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T01:05:47","slug":"going-to-the-last-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Tratthi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tratthi&#8217; is Hindi for palm.  And the girls performed excellent &#8216;tratthi&#8217; strikes two days ago at Babuan.  It was also a way to get them to use their voice.  Silent One did a little better; she started silent, but took less encouragement this time to get to yell out.  Another girl could not manage more than a squeak, and not for lack of trying.  Mouth full open, the muscles in her little neck straining, only a modified screetchy whisper escaped.  So I am working with her, too.<\/p>\n<p>I am tired with not just bags but luggage under my eyes as I sit here typing.  The fan died in my room two nights ago, so not even that relief from heat, so sleep has been elusive.  I am guzzling some of the coffee I brought to wake myself up; I&#8217;ll be leaving in 45 minutes.  This will be my last class with these beautiful youngsters.  My heart is so heavy, and yet I have to be happy for them, for the experiences they have and will give me.  I want to make this last class useful.  I want them to learn.  I want them to be heard from this day forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tratthi&#8217; is Hindi for palm. And the girls performed excellent &#8216;tratthi&#8217; strikes two days ago at Babuan. It was also a way to get them to use their voice. Silent One did a little better; she started silent, but took less encouragement this time to get to yell out. Another girl could not manage more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}