{"id":3378,"date":"2013-07-31T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2013-07-31T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:18:23","slug":"komar-was-wonderful-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/komar-was-wonderful-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Komar was \u201cwonderful teacher\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Re: Grateful students thank late teacher, July 24)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was saddened to read in The Auroran of the passing of Olive Komar, my Grade 4 teacher at Wells Street Public School.<br \/>\nI whole heartedly agree with the letter proclaiming what a wonderful teacher Mrs. Komar was.<br \/>\nThere are people that make a lasting impression on you throughout your lives, and I find myself thinking back to Grade 4 on a regular basis, simply because of Mrs. Komar.  For Grade 4 students, especially now with shortened words used during texting, spelling was and is a chore.  Mrs. Komar taught her students a little saying in order to remember how to spell the word GEOGRAPHY.  It goes like this:  George Ebison\u2019s Old Grandmother Rode A Pig Home Yesterday.<br \/>\nI still find myself reciting that line ever time I spell out that word.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Holmes<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Grateful students thank late teacher, July 24) I was saddened to read in The Auroran of the passing of Olive Komar, my Grade 4 teacher at Wells Street Public School. I whole heartedly agree with the letter proclaiming what a wonderful teacher Mrs. Komar was. There are people that make a lasting impression on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}