{"id":423,"date":"2012-09-03T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T22:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-09-03T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T22:33:22","slug":"i-played-hookey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/i-played-hookey\/","title":{"rendered":"I played hookey the first day of school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Program for Online Teaching Certificate (affectionately titled potcert*) officially started yesterday.\u00a0 And I played hookey.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t regret it.\u00a0 On one of the last warm days of our short, northern summer, it would have been sheer ungratefulness to stay inside hunched over a computer.\u00a0 Instead my wife and I went dirt biking far from the madding wifi.\u00a0 Here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=205150079529460386906.0004c8c18af52d1573c11&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=63.156138,-117.011433&amp;spn=0.059609,0.264187&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=205150079529460386906.0004c8c18af52d1573c11&amp;msa=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=63.156138,-117.011433&amp;spn=0.059609,0.264187&amp;source=embed\">Dirtbike Trip to Falls<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/s720x720\/644435_238891692899716_1263311913_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"LaMartre Falls\" src=\"http:\/\/a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/s720x720\/644435_238891692899716_1263311913_n.jpg\" alt=\"LaMartre Falls\" width=\"720\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaMartre Falls, Northwest Territories, Canada<br \/>63.13745 latitude, -116.89896 longitude<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It turns out not unrelated to potcert after all.\u00a0 I have ammo for embedding (map above) and linking (photo above).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also posted my\u00a0<a title=\"falls photo album\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.238890802899805.51732.100003366610883&amp;type=3&amp;l=59154a8aed\" target=\"_blank\">photo album from the trip<\/a> on FaceBook &#8211; I think it&#8217;s open to anyone.\u00a0 Educate me.\u00a0 Let me know if you still have to sign into FB to view it.<\/p>\n<p>*I must have a strange mind, distracted by the most mundane connections. I keep musing over the consequences if unwary facilitators had chosen to tag this sMOOC &#8220;POT&#8221; instead of &#8220;POTCERT&#8221; in recognition of the fact that not everyone is after the CERTificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Program for Online Teaching Certificate (affectionately titled potcert*) officially started yesterday.\u00a0 And I played hookey.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t regret it.\u00a0 On one of the last warm days of our short, northern summer, it would have been sheer ungratefulness to stay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/i-played-hookey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-potcert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xsA3-6P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}