{"id":5476,"date":"2023-06-10T19:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2023-06-10T19:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T23:13:59","slug":"a-gentle-breeze-or-whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/2023-solar-terms\/a-gentle-breeze-or-whirlwind\/","title":{"rendered":"a gentle breeze, or whirlwind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span title=\"Chinese-language text\"><span lang=\"zh-Hans\">\u8292\u79cd\u3002<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This past week has been unbearably hot and forest fire-y, except for Friday when it was dark and rainy. The weather is a mystery. Another mystery, to me, is the way elementary school students act. I can try my hardest to think back to when my sister and I were kids, and read through all my old posts and diaries, but suffice to say, I was not a regular kid. I was not a regular kid by the standards of regularity then, and especially not now. I think I&#8217;ve gotten better at not really caring about being regular or not, and using that to my advantage, but that also means that I have no idea how to handle children.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to empathize with them and distract them enough to get work done is different from handling them. Fortunately, it&#8217;s not my job to teach or discipline them in any way. I&#8217;m kind of like an insider. A spy for both sides. I can understand adults and translate them into words that kids can get, and I can offer insight into the mind of a child&#8230; but I don&#8217;t know how to un-spoil a child, for example. I am not a therapist or a parent, and I do not plan to be.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, elementary schools are so weird. Especially because I attended this one. Sure, it was just two years, but I met some weird people there (some of them are still my friends now, so it&#8217;s okay to call them weird) and also some really great teachers. I graduated from elementary 10 years ago, which is incredibly difficult for me to wrap my head around. I genuinely though I wouldn&#8217;t live that long. I remember the Grade 7 Graduation Ceremony more than my high school one, and I didn&#8217;t go to my undergrad one.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat living vicariously through these kids.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/b6b689dc1d8318cc2384632ac204d190\/f5185dcfe5fb494d-50\/s2048x3072\/7510772844e0025503f51b58224faa3f998e4278.pnj\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u8292\u79cd\u3002 This past week has been unbearably hot and forest fire-y, except for Friday when it was dark and rainy.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/2023-solar-terms\/a-gentle-breeze-or-whirlwind\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a gentle breeze, or whirlwind<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/b6b689dc1d8318cc2384632ac204d190\/f5185dcfe5fb494d-50\/s2048x3072\/7510772844e0025503f51b58224faa3f998e4278.pnj","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-solar-terms","excerpt","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}