{"id":10870,"date":"2016-01-23T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/universities-like-people-are-duplicitous-and\/"},"modified":"2016-01-23T23:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T23:19:02","slug":"universities-like-people-are-duplicitous-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/universities-like-people-are-duplicitous-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Universities, like people, are duplicitous and loathe having their duplicity exposed publicly. They therefore seek ways of obscuring the truth of their decline while also creating the impression of ever-increasing achievement. But how is this grand trompe-l&#8217;\u0153il to be sustained? How can you cease to do, or at best do very badly, what you claim is the raison d\u2019\u00eatre of your institution \u2014 cultivating intelligence and learning \u2014 while still persuading people to pay you large sums of money for your services?  Without putting too fine a point on it, you lie, obfuscate, and \u201credefine\u201d your mandate so as to hide the truth of your institution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/dear-parents-everything-you-need-to-know-about-your-son-and-daughters-university-but-dont\/#.VqKjhkTIm4U.facebook\">Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter\u2019s University But Don\u2019t &#8211; The Los Angeles Review of Books<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities, like people, are duplicitous and loathe having their duplicity exposed publicly. They therefore seek ways of obscuring the truth of their decline while also creating the impression of ever-increasing achievement. But how is this grand trompe-l&#8217;\u0153il to be sustained? How can you cease to do, or at best do very badly, what you claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}