{"id":90,"date":"2011-06-05T12:46:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-12-01T17:28:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:28:16","slug":"a-friend-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"A Friend Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=90\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>My good friend, Sue Jaysnovitch, has made the momentous decision \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0                                    to retire from teaching, after forty-one years of fighting the good fight.<\/p>\n<p>This poem is  dedicated to her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free At Last<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free at last, free at last&#8230;<br \/>\nThank God almighty, I\u2019m free at last!<br \/>\nSue was still at her school&#8230;<br \/>\nThis day would be her last.<\/p>\n<p>She had taught for 41<em> wonderful<\/em> years.<br \/>\n(Looking back, where did those decades go?)<br \/>\nThey say that when the time to leave comes,<br \/>\nSomehow, you always seem to know.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching isn\u2019t the job it once was.<br \/>\n(Something unnecessary to mention.)<br \/>\nAnd then there\u2019s our hypocrite Governor&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd his wanting to mess with the pension.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the time was right to move on<br \/>\nAnd our girlfriend&#8230; well, she knew it.<br \/>\nShe was aware of what needed to be done&#8230;<br \/>\nAll she had to do was to \u201cjust do it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So, Sue made the journey to Trenton<br \/>\nAnd she filled out the necessary forms.<br \/>\nDotting the I\u2019s and crossing the T\u2019s,<br \/>\nShe left, feeling a good kind of warm.<\/p>\n<p>The escape hatch was now open<br \/>\nAnd Sue had elected to scoot&#8230;<br \/>\nShe finally pulled the ripcord<br \/>\nOn her <em>golden<\/em> parachute.<\/p>\n<p>Summer had at last arrived.<br \/>\nThe sweet scent of freedom filled the air.<br \/>\nLike a convict granted an early release,<br \/>\nSue left without worry or care.<\/p>\n<p>You did the right thing, Sue.<br \/>\nNow you\u2019ll live happily ever after.<br \/>\nWithout lesson plans and grades,<br \/>\nLife\u2019s filled with relaxation and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Mazel Tov, my friend.<br \/>\nGlad to have you as a new addition<br \/>\nTo our club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stash<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend, Sue Jaysnovitch, has made the momentous decision \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to retire from teaching, after forty-one years of fighting the good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/?p=90\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stashreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}