{"id":7402,"date":"2022-01-30T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7402","title":{"rendered":"LEARNING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the moment I find myself on a steep learning curve. I am reading books and listening to podcasts every spare moment. All for the sake of my new role with Mission Resource International.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I am loving it.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am studying how to write copy for advertisements in print or email. Exploring ways to optimize websites and utilize social media. And even reading up on the history of fertilizer.*<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used to tell my 8th graders that it was a fact that they enjoyed learning. They loudly protested such an idea, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I would say, &#8220;I said LEARNING, not schooling.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we have an interest in something and can see its usefulness, the act of <b><i>learning <\/i><\/b>becomes indistinguishable from <b><i>play<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">____________________________<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Later I will explain the use for this. The book I am reading is called <i>The Alchemy of Air <\/i>by Thomas Hager. I am not yet halfway through it, but I recommend it, especially if you have interests in both science and history. It even has a Hitler angle to it! Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I find myself on a steep learning curve. I am reading books and listening to podcasts every spare moment. All for the sake of my new role with Mission Resource International. And I am loving it. I am studying how to write copy for advertisements in print or email. Exploring ways to [&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-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","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=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}