{"id":3120,"date":"2008-08-19T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2008-08-19T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:58:27","slug":"the-old-college-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3120","title":{"rendered":"The old college try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Is it just me, or is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloit.edu\/mindset\/2012.php\">Beloit College Mindset List<\/a> sort of genuinely stupid? Not the idea behind it &#8212; which is basically, &#8220;let&#8217;s make everyone over 18 feel really old,&#8221; which I guess has its place &#8212; or even some of its cultural observations, but in the overall execution, its awkward phrasings, and its general failure to be anything like actually funny.<\/p>\n<p>I was much more taken aback by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveruin.com\/\">Mike Sterling<\/a>&#8216;s observation that Neil Gaiman&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Dream Hunters<\/em> came out ten years ago, apparently. How old does that make you feel?&#8221; Surely that couldn&#8217;t be right&#8230;but damn, it is. It&#8217;s one thing to realize the cultural artifacts of your <em>childhood<\/em> are now old; it&#8217;s quite another to realize the things that seem like they happened just yesterday actually happened a decade ago.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or is the Beloit College Mindset List sort of genuinely stupid? Not the idea behind it &#8212; which is basically, &#8220;let&#8217;s make everyone over 18 feel really old,&#8221; which I guess has its place &#8212; or even some of its cultural observations, but in the overall execution, its awkward phrasings, and &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3120\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}