{"id":613,"date":"2019-03-16T22:47:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T03:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=613"},"modified":"2019-03-16T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T03:49:31","slug":"rant-are-you-honestly-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/16\/rant-are-you-honestly-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Rant:  Are you honestly surprised?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-617\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-617\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shock-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shock-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shock-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shock.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shocked&#8230; yes, shocked I am!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oh noes, a somewhat serious subject:\u00a0 Outrage over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/admissions\/article\/2019\/03\/13\/dozens-indicted-alleged-massive-case-admissions-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education scandal du jour<\/a> where some wealthy parents paid money to get their kids in select colleges and universities.\u00a0 Sometimes BIG money, no less, upwards of $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb here and speculate that, the more money spent, the dumber the kid.<\/p>\n<p>But, I digress.\u00a0 (I do a lot of that, digressing.)\u00a0 Anyway, everyone is all up in arms.\u00a0 There&#8217;s outrage&#8230; OUTRAGE, I tell ya!\u00a0 How could this have happened?\u00a0 This is an unethical and moral perversion of the purity of higher education!\u00a0 (Don&#8217;t laugh.)\u00a0 Academia is above this.\u00a0 (Stop laughing.)\u00a0 I&#8217;m shocked&#8230; shocked, I tell ya!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p>Seriously&#8230; honestly&#8230; are you really naive enough to believe this is somehow new?\u00a0 After your check clears for the bridge, I have a special nugget of information for you&#8230; write this down:\u00a0 People cheat!<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone, of course, but enough to make it common.\u00a0 And people with money cheat no less than the average person, they only do it at a higher level, hence the current scandal.\u00a0 Generally, though, rich people can buy their way out of it, but this one was just too much.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, again, another little nugget:\u00a0 People are greedy.<\/p>\n<p>Inconceivable, I know, but it happens.\u00a0 Why do you think the cost of higher education has kept pace with the availability of easy money, i.e. student loans?<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, it&#8217;s ok to be disapproving, but any outrage on your part is either insincere or naive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of curious how this one will play out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m expecting it to be eclipsed by the next outrageous scandal within two months&#8230; if that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh noes, a somewhat serious subject:\u00a0 Outrage over the education scandal du jour where some wealthy parents paid money to get their kids in select colleges and universities.\u00a0 Sometimes BIG money, no less, upwards of $100,000. Ok, I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb here and speculate that, the more money spent, the dumber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disbelief","category-observations","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}