{"id":4002,"date":"2023-09-16T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:47","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4002","title":{"rendered":"PROGRESS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just submitted an 11 page exegesis paper, completing one of my two final classes in my doctorate program through Wesley Biblical Seminary. In the next 10 days or so, I will finish a project and paper for the second class and this semester will be over.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank God! (It&#8217;s been a long semester.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will put me two-thirds of the way toward forcing everyone I know to address me as &#8220;Dr. Gross&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am joking, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plan to require only my brothers and my wife to call me Dr. Gross.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These past two years of classes have been good overall, though often stressful.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am starting to get excited about this final year, though. I think the dissertation will be kinda fun.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least fun in the same way that self-directed study is always more enjoyable than taking a class.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The challenge will be setting and holding myself to my own deadlines. ( &#8211; I write as the clock approaches midnight after about 12 hours of last-minute typing!)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just submitted an 11 page exegesis paper, completing one of my two final classes in my doctorate program through Wesley Biblical Seminary. In the next 10 days or so, I will finish a project and paper for the second class and this semester will be over. Thank God! (It&#8217;s been a long semester.) This [&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-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","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=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}