{"id":24,"date":"2008-12-03T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/2008\/12\/03\/miming-doesnt-pay\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T09:35:59","slug":"miming-doesnt-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2008\/12\/miming-doesnt-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Miming Doesn&#8217;t Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wcmrMkzl7V4\/STaoiod9_gI\/AAAAAAAAAgI\/MuzMjXPOeNI\/s1600-h\/44874519.DPP_40452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wcmrMkzl7V4\/STaoiod9_gI\/AAAAAAAAAgI\/MuzMjXPOeNI\/s320\/44874519.DPP_40452.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275589326443249154\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>To show everyone what a brilliant teacher I am, here is an excerpt from an essay my student wrote.  He is a Korean 8th grader.  The assignment was to write a five paragraph essay on the best way to achieve success:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last simple, but important element is that it is realistic.  It should be something that the person has a chance of doing.  Yes, that might sound brutal and discouraging, but a person from a farm has no or almost no chance of becoming a professor in Harvard University. Also, no one should ever dream of living a happy, rich and comfortable life being a street mime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I take full credit for this display of genius.  I hope everyone can learn from his sensible advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To show everyone what a brilliant teacher I am, here is an excerpt from an essay my student wrote. He is a Korean 8th grader. The assignment was to write a five paragraph essay on the best way to achieve success: The last simple, but important element is that it is realistic. It should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2541,3],"tags":[135,133,129,132,134,131,130],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-writing","tag-essay","tag-harvard","tag-korea","tag-mime","tag-student","tag-success","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}