{"id":38,"date":"2011-01-09T03:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T03:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/newcurmudgeonspeaks\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-01-09T03:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T03:08:47","slug":"at-least-she-was-being-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/01\/09\/at-least-she-was-being-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"At least she was being honest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This is a new addition for the category &#8220;excuses instructors  hear&#8221;. My colleague Ric reports that he has been approach by a student  asking for an alternative for an examination to be given on Wednesday.  This request is pre-emptive. It turns out the student will turn 21 on  Tuesday and evidently plans on celebrating. Ric, being quite quick  witted, asks for proof that the student will be unable to take the exam.  The student volunteers that he can check her driver&#8217;s license  demonstrating the she will in fact have a 21st birthday on Tuesday. The  next logical question concerned the certainty that while it was apparent  that Tuesday was her 21st birthday, just how would this be proof that  Wednesday would not be an appropriate day for an important examination. I  am not certain that I understood what was offered as the response to  this questions. Ric does report that classmates of the student in  question did report that the predicted state of incapability was in fact  highly probable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new addition for the category &#8220;excuses instructors hear&#8221;. My colleague Ric reports that he has been approach by a student asking for an alternative for an examination to be given on Wednesday. This request is pre-emptive. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/01\/09\/at-least-she-was-being-honest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}