{"id":1,"date":"2016-06-17T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T03:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:05:03","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/2016\/06\/17\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Journey Continues!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=tomlinson_thom\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of It.\u201d \u2013 Spuriously attributed to Thomas Jefferson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas Jefferson and I share the name Thomas. We both had red hair. He read, I read. As a kid he was my favorite Founding Father (you have to imagine an announcer saying Founding Father so it sounds more important). That quote, I thought, belonged to him and provided me with a source of motivation. You want something good to happen? Work harder and more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation reports no documents written by Jefferson that contain the phrase or any variant. The phrase stills has value to me, except I do not believe in luck. I believe in timing. If you set goals, work efficiently, and believe in yourself, eventually the timing will land opportunity in your lap.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what happened to me.\u00a0No matter where you are in your career, receiving a Kenan Fellowship is an honor. My Kenan Fellowship occurs at the perfect time in my career. After ten years as a public school educator, I needed an infusion of ideas. I yearned for a network of colleagues dedicated to improving their craft, people determined to be the best teachers possible. I wanted to surround myself with people who recognize teaching as a profession. I hoped for a support group for those really tough days. The Kenan Fellowship met all of my needs by placing me in the fabulous 2016 cohort!<\/p>\n<p>So far this experience has reminded me of working hard, and that is part of the journey. I approach life as a journey, not a race to an ever-changing goal. Enjoy the journey. Experience, embrace and share the journey. This philosophy means more than \u201cstop and smell the roses.\u201d But, more on that another day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of It.\u201d \u2013 Spuriously attributed to Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson and I share the name Thomas. We both had red hair. He read, I read. As a kid he was my favorite Founding Father (you have to imagine an announcer saying Founding&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/2016\/06\/17\/hello-world\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}