{"id":214,"date":"2022-03-12T01:28:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T01:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/?p=214"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:59:03","slug":"lent-as-a-time-for-self-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/lent-as-a-time-for-self-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent as a Time for Self-Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Homily, 2-28-22; Monday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I retired, I considered a second career as a high school teacher. And so I went to Oakland University to start taking classes to become certified. But before they would let me take classes, I was required to take the state certification tests for the subjects I wanted to teach. They wanted to make sure that I knew the subject material I planned on teaching before they would let me learn how to go about actually teaching it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I signed up for the math and physics tests and then started to do some serious review. Although I always enjoyed math and physics, it had been a long time since I had been in a classroom. And after much studying and review, I wondered if I was ready for the state exams. And so, I found some practice exams online that gave me a chance for self-evaluation. I took the practice tests to see if I was ready to face the challenge ahead of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think this is one way we can consider the upcoming Lenten season","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homily, 2-28-22; Monday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time After I retired, I considered a second career as a high school teacher. And so I went to Oakland University to start taking classes to become certified. But before they would let me take classes, I was required to take the state certification tests for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/12\/lent-as-a-time-for-self-assessment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lent as a Time for Self-Assessment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekday-homilies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthoscopy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}