{"id":267,"date":"2016-12-07T17:18:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=267"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:18:39","slug":"to-my-problem-cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2016\/12\/07\/to-my-problem-cynicism\/","title":{"rendered":"TO MY PROBLEM, CYNICISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by TYLYN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really just school.<br \/>\nEnlightenment? I say not!<br \/>\nPieces of paper?<br \/>\nPerhaps. A strange pressuring,<br \/>\nwith tests and essays,<br \/>\neven with problem sets, indeed\u2026<br \/>\nExpectations too.<br \/>\nAh yeas, wanting students<br \/>\nto learn calculus,<br \/>\nor even physics, and yet,<br \/>\nnot about real life,<br \/>\nwith its taxes and politics\u2026<br \/>\nWhere\u2019s the quadratic equation?<br \/>\nSure, the three \u201cR\u2019s\u201d are basic,<br \/>\nbut that\u2019s expected<br \/>\nin this complex world of ours.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s simplicities<br \/>\nin the complexities, and<br \/>\nregardless, good schools teach us<br \/>\nnot only theories,<br \/>\nbut also skills, common sense\u2026<br \/>\nand that\u2019s not enough!\u2026<br \/>\nI\u2019ll end here, for now, at least.<br \/>\n\u00a1Salud! and keep hope\u2026<br \/>\nalive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by TYLYN It\u2019s really just school. Enlightenment? I say not! Pieces of paper? Perhaps. A strange pressuring, with tests and essays, even with problem sets, indeed\u2026 Expectations too. Ah yeas, wanting students to learn calculus, or even physics, and yet, not about real life, with its taxes and politics\u2026 Where\u2019s the quadratic equation? Sure, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}