{"id":55904,"date":"2001-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96aeb5ed-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-01-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-31T00:00:00","slug":"96aeb5fd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96aeb5fd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"FOCUS ON EDUCATION\n\nStudying and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I attended school, I never knew how to study. No one took the time to show me.  I don\u2019t remember teachers showing me techniques on how to study. All they did was harp on the same theme song: \u201cStudy-study! Do your homework! Work hard in school and you will get a good grade.\u201d But you know what? That preaching left me cold and unmotivated to study hard.<\/p>\n<p>My parents couldn\u2019t help me because they didn\u2019t know anything about school. They never attended one. As a result I was a C student most of the time with a great sprinkling of D\u2019s and F\u2019S. I knew A\u2019s and B\u2019s as the first and second letters of the alphabet but rarely saw them on my report cards.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated from high school never learning how to study. I drifted from job to job.  Often I had two or three different jobs in a week\u2019s time. I bounced around and around. After two years of working on many various jobs, I realized  that I didn\u2019t enjoy work in which I had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I attended school, I never knew how to study. No one took the time to show me.  I don\u2019t remember teachers showing me techniques on how to study. All they did was harp on the same theme song: \u201cStudy-study! Do your homework! Work hard in school and you will get a good grade.\u201d But you know what? That preaching left me cold and unmotivated to study hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}