{"id":40598,"date":"2013-12-19T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40598"},"modified":"2013-12-16T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:32:32","slug":"i-am-going-to-start-training-our-nations-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40598","title":{"rendered":"I Am Going To Start Training Our Nation&#8217;s Elite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, now, the highest tiers of our university system have turned out our nation&#8217;s &#8220;elites&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason we know they are our &#8220;elites&#8221; is because they are smart.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason we know they are smart is because they got good grades from an &#8220;elite&#8221; university.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to start an &#8220;elite&#8221; university.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll know my university&#8217;s students are the best in America &#8211; because they&#8217;ll all get A+++es on their transcripts.\u00a0 Which, as we know, is better than an A++, to say nothing of an A+.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, relax.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/15\/opinion\/sunday\/leaked-harvards-grading-rubric.html?_r=1&amp;\">It&#8217;s not like Harvard does pretty much the same thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, now, the highest tiers of our university system have turned out our nation&#8217;s &#8220;elites&#8221;. And the reason we know they are our &#8220;elites&#8221; is because they are smart. And the reason we know they are smart is because they got good grades from an &#8220;elite&#8221; university. So I&#8217;m going to start an &#8220;elite&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598","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=40598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40601,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40598\/revisions\/40601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}