{"id":1282,"date":"2006-09-03T06:11:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T06:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/china\/"},"modified":"2006-09-03T06:11:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T06:11:39","slug":"china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/china\/","title":{"rendered":"China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I have been invited to go to China.&nbsp; See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambassadorprograms.org\/upcomingprograms\/education\/clarence_ellis.asp\">http:\/\/www.ambassadorprograms.org\/upcomingprograms\/education\/clarence_ellis.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if everyone gets invited to it, or why I was picked.&nbsp; I looked up the person who invited me, and I do not recall ever being at a conference or workshop with him, but I could have been at the same workshop several years ago in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve shown the link to my husand and he doesn&#8217;t think going to China is a good idea.&nbsp; (Actually he said getting a 6 week old beagle puppy was a better idea).<\/p>\n<p>My mother also doesn&#8217;t think it is something I can handle, and I&#8217;m inclined to agree.<\/p>\n<p>First, it would take me away from my classroom for week.&nbsp; I am very disinclined to be away from my students that long, unless there is a very substantial reason for it.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I am diabetic, insulin dependent and on an insulin pump.&nbsp; Traveling right now is problemic for all diabetics, since we really need to travel with liquids, not just our medications.&nbsp; Plus I am on a CPAP machine, and while mine travels very well, its emergency battery can be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Third, it cots $4,195 to go from LA.&nbsp; While Dallas to LA flights booked this far in advance will probably be cheap.&nbsp; I really can&#8217;t afford it.<\/p>\n<p>So I really doubt I will go, but it is an interesting idea.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I have never had any desire to go to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I have been invited to go to China.&nbsp; See http:\/\/www.ambassadorprograms.org\/upcomingprograms\/education\/clarence_ellis.asp I&#8217;m not sure if everyone gets invited to it, or why I was picked.&nbsp; I looked up the person who invited me, and I do not recall ever being at a conference or workshop with him, but I could have been at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}