{"id":4725,"date":"2020-01-21T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T05:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2020-09-23T20:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T03:37:04","slug":"your-predecessor-had-a-nervous-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/your-predecessor-had-a-nervous-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your predecessor had a nervous breakdown!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloe Day rides 33 miles by horseback to her first job as a teacher in remote Athabasca, Alberta, and later becomes a share cropper when she receives a multi-acre homestead in lieu of her teacher&#8217;s pay. The day after the birth of her first child, Cloe rides 30+ miles home over The Muskeg with her baby tied around her neck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When she moves to Gibsons in 1946 to teach English in a one room basement, she is greeted by her students, taunting: &#8216;Your predecessor had a nervous breakdown!&#8217; Tough, fiesty and outspoken, Cloe wallops, throws wastebaskets, and holds her students over the side of a boat as they upchuck in a storm. This and other tales will surprise you and have you smiling at a memorable woman who toughed it out in the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-9.31.30-PM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4730\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-9.31.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-9.31.30-PM.png 452w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-9.31.30-PM-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your predecessor had a nervous breakdown!&#8221; is an episode of THE PODCAST &#8220;SOME KINDA WOMAN, Stories of Us.&#8221; The character and monologue were part of the show called<strong><em> The Life We Lived<\/em>,<\/strong> gathered, edited and performed by Caitlin Hicks, and remembering the early early days on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/12776864\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/3c3aa9\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloe Day rides 33 miles by horseback to her first job as a teacher in remote Athabasca, Alberta, and later becomes a share cropper when she receives a multi-acre homestead in lieu of her teacher&#8217;s pay. The day after the birth of her first child, Cloe rides 30+ miles home over The Muskeg with her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,155],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-somekinda-woman-podcast","tag-child-goes-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}