{"id":1979,"date":"2002-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2020-07-25T00:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T04:02:19","slug":"poem-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"[Poem] Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the value of distraction?<br \/>\nAdd to it the stigma of education<br \/>\nand it is wondrous<br \/>\nor at least worthwhile<\/p>\n<p>We are all struggling to catch up<br \/>\nknow more<br \/>\nbe the best<br \/>\nnow that nothing&#8217;s being handed to us.<br \/>\nFucking silver platter.<\/p>\n<p>So we gather distractions around us<br \/>\n&#8220;tools of learning&#8221;<br \/>\nor will they be another machine<br \/>\nto play Solitaire on?<\/p>\n<p>How can I push myself?<br \/>\nHow do I bring myself to want this goal?<\/p>\n<p>What would happen if I let go of the goal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the value of distraction? Add to it the stigma of education and it is wondrous or at least worthwhile We are all struggling to catch up know more be the best now that nothing&#8217;s being handed to us. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1979\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,35,15],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-livejournal","tag-poetry","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-vV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}