{"id":1735,"date":"2012-03-25T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2013-05-26T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:18:48","slug":"thanks-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I enjoy Dave Winer&#8217;s perspectives on stuff, and sometimes I get annoyed and toy with just deleting <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/\">his blog<\/a> from my RSS feed (I&#8217;ve even done it a couple of times, but then gone back). I&#8217;m glad to be in a reading-Dave phase now, since it yielded a nice piece of autobiographical writing today (<a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/stories\/2012\/03\/25\/shouldYouSkipCollege.html\">I&#8217;m glad I went to college<\/a>). Here&#8217;s his last paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The thing is, you don&#8217;t know in advance if going to college is going to be worth it, so you don&#8217;t know if you should or shouldn&#8217;t go. Like I said, everyone has to decide for themselves. But for me, not only was it worth it, but it gave me the life I wanted. I wanted to be creative. I wanted to make a difference. I wanted people to know me, and I wanted to be self-sufficient. I didn&#8217;t like what the adults were doing, and I still don&#8217;t like what most of them do. But some of them were looking out for me, and I was lucky enough to find them when I needed them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This inspires a silent but heartfelt thank you to those adults who looked out for me, all of them now gone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I enjoy Dave Winer&#8217;s perspectives on stuff, and sometimes I get annoyed and toy with just deleting his blog from my RSS feed (I&#8217;ve even done it a couple of times, but then gone back). I&#8217;m glad to be in a reading-Dave phase now, since it yielded a nice piece of autobiographical writing today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}