{"id":27741,"date":"2020-06-17T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=27741"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T00:09:15","slug":"end-of-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=27741","title":{"rendered":"End of school year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The school year &#8211; certainly one of the strangest ever &#8211; has come to a close. Last week, the girls participated in a series of (virtual) end-of-year and good-bye activities, including the very moving candlelight ceremony for 7th and 8th graders. In normal years the 8th graders extinguish their candles and hand off their head-of-school status to the younger grade; this year, Zoe and her classmates held up candles while their older peer provided some words of wisdom over Zoom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the gems: &#8220;Enjoy the time you have left at Brandeis &#8211; it goes so fast.&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t take seeing your friends or being back at school for granted.&#8221; &#8220;Really treasure your moments at school and with friends &#8211; live in the moment.&#8221; &#8220;If you wind up going to Israel, have an extra amazing time in our honor.&#8221; (The annual 8th grade trip was, obviously, cancelled.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were a lot more comments like the above, and quite a few tears, and I was moved by the maturity and insight of these 13- and 14-year-olds. It&#8217;s a huge deal that Zoe is about to enter her last year (!) of Brandeis, and I hope she takes their words to heart&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-M<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zoe-at-candle-ceremony-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27742\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zoe-at-candle-ceremony-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zoe-at-candle-ceremony-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zoe-at-candle-ceremony-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school year &#8211; certainly one of the strangest ever &#8211; has come to a close. Last week, the girls participated in a series of (virtual) end-of-year and good-bye activities, including the very moving candlelight ceremony for 7th and 8th graders. In normal years the 8th graders extinguish their candles and hand off their head-of-school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101-two-kids-jan-dec-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27749,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27741\/revisions\/27749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}