{"id":41410,"date":"2021-04-26T21:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41410"},"modified":"2021-04-26T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:17:06","slug":"retrospect-the-grocery-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/retrospect-the-grocery-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospect: the grocery incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<p>\nEarlier today I was at the supermarket, picking up a week&#8217;s worth of groceries. We&#8217;re a family of four, so the cart was getting full.<\/p>\n<p>Eggs were on the list. I&#8217;d tried to get them earlier, but someone was always there first. At the end I picked them up and placed them in the cart on top of other groceries. They were positioned awkwardly, but I thought they were pretty safe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should put the bread on top of the eggs,&#8221; a voice came from about fifteen feet away. Suddenly I was back in 1978, a clueless kid who needed to be told the simplest of things. I looked up to catch the familiar glare of someone decades older, scolding me that I should know better.<\/p>\n<p>In a few seconds I realized I&#8217;m not eight years old and that, regardless of the scold in the lady&#8217;s voice, she had a point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re probably right,&#8221; I chuckled. I moved the cart off to the side and reorganized it as the critic recommended. For the first time in my life I realized that, even if she wasn&#8217;t nice about it and thought I was useless, the advice she gave was still helplful. I smiled as I finished rearranging the cart.<\/p>\n<p>The eggs made it safely into the fridge &#8211; thanks to her? We&#8217;ll give her the benefit of the doubt:)<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor reflects&#8230;. Earlier today I was at the supermarket, picking up a week&#8217;s worth of groceries. We&#8217;re a family of four, so the cart was getting full. Eggs were on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/retrospect-the-grocery-incident\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrospect: the grocery incident<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrospect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41413,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41410\/revisions\/41413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}