{"id":2302,"date":"2017-10-17T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2017-10-17T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T20:39:52","slug":"its-a-great-day-for-a-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/its-a-great-day-for-a-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a great day for a walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a day of meetings, which meant I mostly sat at my desk.&nbsp; While I was productively conversing with students and my colleagues, my smart watch was reminding me that I had not stood several times throughout the day, so I\u2019d quickly stand up and get moving.&nbsp; Well around 2 pm today, I had not been outside since I had arrived for the morning, so I met a colleague and we went for a walk.&nbsp; This got me thinking, how often do we allow ourselves some freshness?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2303 size-thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/River-pic_2375-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p>Being a professor is an extremely selfless task.&nbsp;&nbsp;I know I often remind my students to take time for themselves, but do I follow my own advice?&nbsp; Well, today I did, and it was glorious.&nbsp; &nbsp;If you cannot get outside, take a longer (or different) route to the restroom or find a staircase and do some loops.&nbsp; &nbsp;When I take time, I feel better, but I also think more.&nbsp; This allows me to provide time and space for me to reflect on and process whatever I\u2019m working on at that time.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, enjoy the day and take care of you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a day of meetings, which meant I mostly sat at my desk.&nbsp; While I was productively conversing with students and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-B8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}