{"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<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really just school.<br \/> Enlightenment? I say not!<br \/> Pieces of paper?<br \/> Perhaps. A strange pressuring,<br \/> with tests and essays,<br \/> even with problem sets, indeed\u2026<br \/> Expectations too.<br \/> Ah yeas, wanting students<br \/> to learn calculus,<br \/> or even physics, and yet,<br \/> not about real life,<br \/> [&#8230;]<\/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}]}}