{"id":11758,"date":"2016-10-26T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:02:44","slug":"from-lives-to-modern-love-writing-personal-essays-with-help-from-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/from-lives-to-modern-love-writing-personal-essays-with-help-from-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"From &#8216;Lives&#8217; to &#8216;Modern Love&#8217;: Writing Personal Essays With Help From The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This resource from the New York Times Learning Network provides seven recommendations for teaching and writing personal essays, as well as a curated collection of essays from the Times to serve as mentor texts. <\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #acacac; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic;\">&#8220;In this post we suggest several ways to inspire your students&#8217; own personal writing, using Times models as &#8216;mentor texts,&#8217; and advice from our writers on everything from avoiding &#8216;zombie nouns&#8217; to writing &#8216;dangerous&#8217; college essays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interested in finding out more?\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/20\/learning\/lesson-plans\/from-lives-to-modern-love-writing-personal-essays-with-help-from-the-new-york-times.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a> at The New York Times Learning Network<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This resource from the New York Times Learning Network provides seven recommendations for teaching and writing personal essays, as well as a curated collection of essays from the Times to serve as mentor texts. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[840,841,749,839],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11760,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions\/11760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}