{"id":539,"date":"2003-04-01T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/04\/01\/4-1-03\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:19:27","slug":"april-fools-teaching-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/april-fools-teaching-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools: Teaching in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played a pretty good <strong>April Fools<\/strong> on my parents. As you know, I&#8217;ve been trying to get this education certification thing under my belt. I&#8217;m signing up for a master&#8217;s program SOMEWHERE to get it squared away. Well, yesterday I mentioned to my mom in passing that I had been looking into international scholarship programs for educators. Of course, that was just to line my folks up for tonight&#8217;s mischief! So I got in touch with them and had them both get on the line because I had some news to tell them.<\/p>\n<p>We all talked for a few minutes about this and that. And then I broke it to them. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been accepted into an international scholarship program! I had been talking to someone at the Board of Ed in Warren County&#8230; I even saw the guy today and we&#8217;ve got this pretty much squared away! I&#8217;m going to be spending 6-12 months in an international student teacher exchange program in Nigeria!&#8221; I kept talking it up for a few minutes. All the while, my dad is muttering a forceful, &#8220;No. No.&#8221; under his breath and I can tell my mom&#8217;s head is spinning a bit, she&#8217;s trying to get the whole story straight. Finally, I came clean, &#8220;And you know what the best part about this whole thing is? April Fools!&#8221; :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played a pretty good April Fools on my parents. As you know, I&#8217;ve been trying to get this education certification thing under my belt. I&#8217;m signing up for a master&#8217;s program SOMEWHERE to get it squared away. Well, yesterday I mentioned to my mom in passing that I had been looking into international scholarship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}