{"id":41693,"date":"2012-03-14T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41693"},"modified":"2012-03-14T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:23:05","slug":"eager-young-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41693","title":{"rendered":"Eager Young Minds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0314-lopez-edcuts-20120314,0,1137047.column\">Steve Lopez writes in the Los Angeles Times about California<\/a>: &#8220;At every level, cuts decimate once-great institutions and devalue our greatest resource &#8212; eager young minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I went to school for many years in California and only on the rarest of occasions did I meet an eager mind. Of the good students I&#8217;ve met, only about 1% appeared to have enthusiasm for their studies. For the rest, it was only careerism. Doing their studies was simply a matter of getting ahead in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Lopez writes in the Los Angeles Times about California: &#8220;At every level, cuts decimate once-great institutions and devalue our greatest resource &#8212; eager young minds.&#8221; I went to school for many years in California and only on the rarest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41694,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions\/41694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}