{"id":38727,"date":"2013-10-01T05:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38727"},"modified":"2013-10-01T05:48:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:48:46","slug":"boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38727","title":{"rendered":"Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/26\/education\/in-a-recovering-economy-a-decline-in-college-enrollment.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=0&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;hpw&amp;adxnnlx=1374843781-AotApQlyFW%20W5cwsaP92qg\" target=\"_blank\">College Enrollment Falls As Economy Recovers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sounds as if young people are opting to skip college to go straight into the workforce, snapping up all those outstanding jobs at great pay and benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Except the article doesn\u2019t say that.\u00a0 The article talks about sky-high tuition and student loans, it talks about demographics, it talks about colleges that overbuilt, but the notion people are working instead of studying is handled with this line:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the number of Americans turning 18 hit its recent peak in 2009, and will continue to decline through 2016. High school graduation rates appear to have leveled off,\u00a0<em>and job prospects have improved, making school a less attractive option<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really?\u00a0 Where are all these great jobs?\u00a0 Why isn\u2019t Obama getting more credit for creating them?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it qualifies as a &#8220;Dead Skunk Bounce&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: \u201cCollege Enrollment Falls As Economy Recovers.\u201d Sounds as if young people are opting to skip college to go straight into the workforce, snapping up all those outstanding jobs at great pay and benefits. Except the article doesn\u2019t say that.\u00a0 The article talks about sky-high tuition and student loans, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38727","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=38727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38729,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38727\/revisions\/38729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}