{"id":3333,"date":"2024-09-30T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","slug":"the-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"THE LIMIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I might have found my limit. Life has gotten a bit busier ever since I started teaching English as a Second Language classes on Monday and Wednesday nights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I enjoy teaching the classes and I LOVE my students, but the prep time and the three hour commitment (plus coming and going) twice a week is putting a strain on my energy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m committed through Christmas and then I will need to take a second look at continuing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My real problem is that beyond everything I am already struggling to juggle, I need some serious time devoted to my dissertation if I am going to get it off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so far that just hasn&#8217;t happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have two more weeks before our fall break trip to visit Hannah &#8211; I need to push extra hard this week and next so that I can legit relax for a few days guilt-free.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I intend to make it happen. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I might have found my limit. Life has gotten a bit busier ever since I started teaching English as a Second Language classes on Monday and Wednesday nights.\u00a0 I enjoy teaching the classes and I LOVE my students, but the prep time and the three hour commitment (plus coming and going) twice a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}