{"id":478,"date":"2005-08-16T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2005-08-16T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T21:31:00","slug":"the-crows-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"The Crow&#8217;s Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself wishing we had a Crow&#8217;s Nest here today. I have a splitting headache, probably quite close to a migraine, and I realized I was thinking to myself, &#8220;I JUST WANT TO GO TO THE CROW&#8217;S NEST.&#8221; And then I realized, nobody really knows what in the hell that is, do they?<\/p>\n<p>When I was in grade school, there was a tiny little room at the very top of the building. Standard-sized stairs led up to it, where a landing met a door, and in that room were dry old books, and a small padded bench, with a white cotton blanket &#038; small white pillow. It had a little window that overlooked the playgrounds. Students who didn&#8217;t feel well, but didn&#8217;t warrant being sent home immediately, were escorted to that little room, which was called the Crow&#8217;s Nest. I only went there once, but it was so comforting. To be relieved of duty, no longer sitting in my desk, but safe &amp; cozy at the very apex of the building, surrounded by books that hadn&#8217;t been opened in years, and the distant hum of classroom activity reassured me the world was carrying on.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone needs a Crow&#8217;s Nest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself wishing we had a Crow&#8217;s Nest here today. I have a splitting headache, probably quite close to a migraine, and I realized I was thinking to myself, &#8220;I JUST WANT TO GO TO THE CROW&#8217;S NEST.&#8221; And then I realized, nobody really knows what in the hell that is, do they? When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}