{"id":5150,"date":"2013-07-20T21:16:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T21:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2013-07-20T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T21:16:59","slug":"we-can-tell-our-children-that-school-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=5150","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We can tell our children that school is important until we\u2019re blue in the face, they\u2019re not stupid. They see the loudest applause is for the kids on the field. They know teachers are paid poorly and don\u2019t drive fancy cars. They know people plan Super Bowl parties but mock the National Spelling Bee. In other words, they see the hypocrisy, and we can\u2019t expect society to correct itself. If we want to have any lasting influence on the way our kids approach education \u2014 the way future generations approach education \u2014 then we have to grab our pom-poms and paint our faces and celebrate intellectual curiosity with the same vigor we do their athletic achievements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/OPINION\/06\/28\/granderson.raising.nerd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why I\u2019m raising my son to be a nerd &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/zacheser.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">zacheser<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can tell our children that school is important until we\u2019re blue in the face, they\u2019re not stupid. They see the loudest applause is for the kids on the field. They know teachers are paid poorly and don\u2019t drive fancy cars. They know people plan Super Bowl parties but mock the National Spelling Bee. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1530,334,3494,3495],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-celebration","tag-education","tag-itellectual-curiosity","tag-the-future","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}