{"id":1603,"date":"2007-09-05T16:41:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/teaching-moment\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T16:41:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T16:41:42","slug":"teaching-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/teaching-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My afternoon CS class got me off topic.&nbsp; I&#8217;m starting to teach the kiddos about buying computers.&nbsp; I like to do it in little chunks, and today I was showing off my convertible notebook.&nbsp; Later in the week I&#8217;ll show off the MacMini.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I ended up showing them my continuous glucose monitor.&nbsp; One of my students asked &#8220;is your diabetes so bad that you need that?&#8221;.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>My answer:&nbsp; &#8220;I&#8217;m so much into data that having it makes it easier for me to keep my blood sugar where I want it and not only do I feel better, but I&#8217;m a better teacher&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what?&nbsp; She&#8217;s hispanic, overweight and diabetic.&nbsp; Doesn&#8217;t take insulin.&nbsp; Betting you that she&#8217;s a Type 2.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe she&#8217;ll learn something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My afternoon CS class got me off topic.&nbsp; I&#8217;m starting to teach the kiddos about buying computers.&nbsp; I like to do it in little chunks, and today I was showing off my convertible notebook.&nbsp; Later in the week I&#8217;ll show off the MacMini. Anyway, I ended up showing them my continuous glucose monitor.&nbsp; One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}