To:\u00a0 America’s writing teachers<\/p>\n
From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg (BA, English)<\/p>\n
Re:\u00a0 Status Report<\/p>\n
As my friend Joe “Learned Foot” Tucci notes over at the Kool Aid Report<\/a>, it’s quite clear from this example<\/a> that some of you really, really aren’t pulling your weight.<\/p>\n Seriously – we presume that most of the people writing the linked bilge are adults, right?\u00a0 High school, if not college graduates?\u00a0 They can’t even pull off “cutesy” and “smug” well.<\/p>\n Perhaps more surprising; given the demographics of most “counterculture” protesters, many of the perpetrators are likely private school <\/em>grads.<\/p>\n This should <\/em>be popping up on your performance reviews (presuming justice breaks out in this universe any time soon).<\/p>\n See to this, please.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To:\u00a0 America’s writing teachers From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg (BA, English) Re:\u00a0 Status Report As my friend Joe “Learned Foot” Tucci notes over at the Kool Aid Report, it’s quite clear from this example that some of you really, really aren’t pulling your weight. Seriously – we presume that most of the people writing the linked bilge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33695,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/33695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}