{"id":2,"date":"2014-10-15T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-01-16T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:30:39","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once I was a great student. I loved learning and I was keen. My parents actually worried about me for caring too much, for being obsessive. <\/span>That was when I was ten. After that I wasn\u2019t so keen anymore and before too long I was a disaster. I went to a massive high school that was over 100 years old and I set records for lowest grades ever awarded (Grade 12 Physics!) and absences. No, like I really did! University wasn\u2019t a whole lot better, and so I instead trained to be an actor. I did that (act that is) for quite a few years. Mostly I had fun hanging out with my very close friend, writing two-handed plays and performing them wherever we could on all ends of this earth. As that flame dimmed, my passion for learning was re-igniting. I was 10 again. I\u2019ve never looked back. Not only do I passionately learn, I passionately learn about learning. Perhaps somewhat desperately, I forever seek to truly understand the nature of that 15 year gap between me and a system of education. Somewhat more urgently, I seek to understand that same gap I witness in so many (too many!) of my students. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>I must know how to heal this gaping and disturbing wound. I\u2019m obsessive again. Perhaps my parents should worry. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once I was a great student. I loved learning and I was keen. My parents actually worried about me for caring too much, for being obsessive. That was when I was ten. After that I wasn\u2019t so keen anymore and before too long I was a disaster. I went to a massive high school that … Continue reading “About Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/grahamvogt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}