{"id":2974,"date":"2008-09-25T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/25\/alumni-news-update\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:40:14","slug":"alumni-news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/25\/alumni-news-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At my 15th class reunion this past June, I agreed to become the class secretary for the next few years, writing up little news updates for the Cult of the Purple Cow Quarterly, so my classmates can read about the achievements of their fellows. In that spirit, I feel I should note an accolade that won&#8217;t be likely to appear in the next Alumni Review:<\/p>\n<p><embed FlashVars='videoId=185683' src='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#cccccc' width='332' height='316' name='comedy_central_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Bennett\">William Bennett<\/a> (Class of 1965, and a rugby player, to boot) was dubbed &#8220;Alpha Dog of the Week&#8221; by Stephen Colbert, for having the balls to mock intellectuals. This, from a man with a BA from Williams, a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and a J.D. from Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so proud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At my 15th class reunion this past June, I agreed to become the class secretary for the next few years, writing up little news updates for the Cult of the Purple Cow Quarterly, so my classmates can read about the achievements of their fellows. In that spirit, I feel I should note an accolade that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/25\/alumni-news-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alumni News Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_issues","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}