{"id":968,"date":"2014-02-28T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamwinram.com\/deepbluewp\/?p=968"},"modified":"2018-11-01T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:46:08","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/28\/back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ontario \u2013 February 24-27, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did not know the day would come when I\u2019d be attending kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and college, all in one week !<\/p>\n<p>This intense educational immersion took place when I volunteered for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf-fcf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Wildlife Federation<\/a>\u00a0who took me on a school tour to speak to students across the province of Ontario, Canada. Altogether, over 2\u2019000 students listened to my favourite shark stories and got to ask all their questions to both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/about-cwf\/board-and-staff\/profiles\/sean-brillant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Sean Brilliant, CWF Manager of Marine Programs<\/a>\u00a0and myself.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second collaboration between\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thewatermen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Watermen Project<\/a>\u00a0and the Canadian Wildlife Federation after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=joHMV_HcgfY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">webinar<\/a>\u00a0held in January.<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to all the schools for their warm welcome and a special hats off to Joe Grabowski,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mrgsclassroom8.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grade 8 teacher of St. John Catholic School in Guelph, Ontario<\/a>, for his unmatched enthusiasm and dedication.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mrgsclassroom8.weebly.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe, I would have loved to have a teacher like you in my school years !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario \u2013 February 24-27, 2014 I did not know the day would come when I\u2019d be attending kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and college, all in one week ! This intense educational immersion took place when I volunteered for the\u00a0Canadian Wildlife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}