{"id":1657,"date":"2018-12-29T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2018-12-29T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:19:09","slug":"the-personal-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2018\/12\/29\/the-personal-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Personal Essay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2018\/12\/the-personal-essay.html\">From the wonderful Atrios<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Generally, when any part of education rewards students for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/first-draft.com\/2018\/12\/23\/stop-asking-people-to-prostitute-their-experiences-for-you\/\">being confessional<\/a>, you are going to attract\/reward students who are comfortable with the genre of personal confession. It&#8217;s a weird thing to ask of students, and a weird thing to prioritize so highly. People convinced that The Kids Today (which means kids in elite universities because that&#8217;s all anybody ever really talks about in our elite media) are narcissistic twerps might start with this particular entry hurdle as a reason why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kpu.ca\">My university<\/a>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t require such nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the wonderful Atrios: Generally, when any part of education rewards students for\u00a0being confessional, you are going to attract\/reward students who are comfortable with the genre of personal confession. It&#8217;s a weird thing to ask of students, and a weird &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2018\/12\/29\/the-personal-essay\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-for-educators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}