{"id":1514,"date":"2023-09-25T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:46:07","slug":"lessons-forgotten-after-pandemic-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Forgotten after Pandemic School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By CJ Muchhala<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">We learned to wash our hands again &amp; again \n\t\t\t\t &amp; not to touch our faces.\nWe learned to think of others \n\t\t\t\tbut not to get too close. \nWe learned the worth of exercise\n\t\t\t\t &amp; of time spent outdoors.\nWe learned that social isolation &amp; the loss of human touch \n\t\t\t\tis harmful to our mental health. \n\nWhen school closed down, &amp; we were free, \nwe forgot these lessons\u2014for some. \nWe still crowd prisons. \n\nWe favor solitary confinement \n\t\t\t\tfor infractions of the rules \n\t\t\t\t&amp; to contain mental illness. \nWe restrict time in the gym\n\t\t\t\t&amp; outdoors in \u201cthe yard.\u201d\nBut we do continue to wash our hands.\n\t\t\t          Again &amp; again, we wash our hands . . .\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But we do continue to wash our hands.\/Again &#038; again, we wash our hands&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sept-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}