{"id":1128,"date":"2006-12-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1128"},"modified":"2006-12-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"5-things-you-may-not-know-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things you may not know about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (if you only know me through my blog)<br  \/>I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/tbarrett.edublogs.org\/2006\/12\/26\/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-me\/\">tagged by  Tom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I used to be a zoo keeper, at the now defunct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasgowzoo.co.uk\/\">Glasgow Zoo<\/a>. I worked in the carnivore section and co-authored AFAIR a few articles for various journals mostly about behavioural enrichment. I&#8217;ll leave others to decide if this experience helped or hindered my teaching.  <\/li>\n<li>I have played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taichiunion.com\">tai chi<\/a> for over 16 years. I manage a few tai chi websites.<\/li>\n<li>I entered the teaching profession for financial  reasons when working as a zoo keeper (my daughter was born), I though I&#8217;d give it a go for a couple of years (about 15-16 years ago).<\/li>\n<li>Unlike many edu bloggers I had an instinctive dislike for computers, until my head teacher &#8216;made&#8217; me take an apple mac lc475 home over the summer. I bought my first computer in 1995 a Performa 630. This is considerably later than most folks entry to ict. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HyperCard\">HyperCard<\/a> was the application that got my attention.<\/li>\n<li>I have had poetry rejected by a poetry magazine, entirely justified I hasten to add, a very short lived ambition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I am tagging <a href=\"http:\/\/edcompblog.blogspot.com\/\">David<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andywatson.edublogs.org\/\">Andy<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/robthill.wordpress.com\/\">Bob<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonesieboy.co.uk\/blog\">Robert<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk\/\">Pete<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(if you only know me through my blog)I&#8217;ve been tagged by Tom. I used to be a zoo keeper, at the now defunct Glasgow Zoo. I worked in the carnivore section and co-authored AFAIR a few articles for various journals mostly about behavioural enrichment. I&#8217;ll leave others to decide if this experience helped or hindered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-ic","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}