{"id":12,"date":"2007-03-22T21:59:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T05:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-03-22T21:59:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T05:59:05","slug":"teach-for-america-reality-and-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/teach-for-america-reality-and-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach for America:  Reality and Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teach for America is a group that takes kids just out of college and gives them the opportunity, if you could call it that, to teach in inner city schools for a couple of years.  I came across two articles on this venture.  One is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/13_1_how_i_joined.html\">harrowing story<\/a> of a real person&#8217;s experience trying to serve his &#8220;strong sense of social justice.&#8221;  The other article is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/30911\">the Onion<\/a>.  Normally, the Onion presents the more absurd version of reality.  I think this is an excellent example of how reality ultimately trumps idealism&#8230;or of life imitating art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teach for America is a group that takes kids just out of college and gives them the opportunity, if you could call it that, to teach in inner city schools for a couple of years. I came across two articles on this venture. One is the harrowing story of a real person&#8217;s experience trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unintended-consequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}