{"id":560,"date":"2005-12-15T00:17:34","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T00:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=560"},"modified":"2005-12-15T00:17:34","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T00:17:34","slug":"stupid-white-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/stupid-white-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid White Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading Michael Moore&#8217;s book: &#8220;Stupid White Men&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>While my bus sat in gridlock for 30 minutes this morning, Moore offered me a sudden flash of inspiration.. <\/p>\n<p><b>Literacy.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>I want to improve the literacy of someone, somewhere. <\/p>\n<p>(Relax Dad, I&#8217;m not thinking of becoming an English teacher.. yet :P)<\/p>\n<p>I can reed and rite. Could I not use my talents for good rather than evil?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure with a little practice, some death-stares, and random beatings with newspapers, I could help someone improve their reading and writing. In the process I would be helping myself feel slightly less useless. What an interesting idea.   <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>BTW: Grant cooks a lovely salmon with hollandaise-sauce.<\/p>\n<p><b>2005-12-16 Update<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve since found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talent.ac.uk\/faq.asp?id=36\">this FAQ<\/a> discussing Adult Literacy teacher training, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifelonglearninguk.org\/qualifications\/itt\/endorsed_itt_table.html\">this list<\/a> of Endorsed Initial Teacher Training Qualifications(FE) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talent.ac.uk\/content.asp?CategoryID=762\">and this<\/a> London-based ESOL, Literacy and Numeracy Teacher Training Project website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading Michael Moore&#8217;s book: &#8220;Stupid White Men&#8221;. While my bus sat in gridlock for 30 minutes this morning, Moore offered me a sudden flash of inspiration.. Literacy. I want to improve the literacy of someone, somewhere. (Relax Dad, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/stupid-white-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}