{"id":956,"date":"2022-03-16T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=956"},"modified":"2022-03-16T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:45:12","slug":"discouragements-and-encouragements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Discouragements and Encouragements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some discouragements in the area of writing and grading. Part of my role at ATS is to write some academic articles. One article that I believe has great potential is an analysis of a cross-cultural database based on guilt, shame, and fear. One discouragement is that I have been unable to contact the database owner concerning permissions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-957 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2022\/03\/Plagiarism_1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another discouragement is a higher than average percentage of students who plagiarized in my last two classes. There are cultural issues involved, and I try to show grace. Nonetheless, it is discouraging and frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>There are two encouragements. Recently I ran a 50 kilometer (31 mile) ultra marathon. I trained and ran the marathon with minimal injuries (mainly blisters and some soreness on the top of my right foot). None of these slowed my training or marathon pace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2022\/03\/marathon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/marathon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/marathon-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/marathon-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/marathon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am en route to Kenya for ATS graduation. Graduation is always an encouraging time of celebration for what God has accomplished in the lives of ATS students.<\/p>\n<p>Praise God with me for a successful ultra marathon and the graduating students. Pray for patience and grace with my students who plagiarize, along with progress on permissions for the article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some discouragements in the area of writing and grading. Part of my role at ATS is to write some academic articles. One article that I believe has great potential is an analysis of a cross-cultural database based on guilt, shame, and fear. One discouragement is that I have been unable to contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}