{"id":15047,"date":"2016-09-23T18:38:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T23:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2016-09-23T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T23:31:58","slug":"modern-education-has-made-history-full-of-spoiler-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/modern-education-has-made-history-full-of-spoiler-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Education Has Made History Full of Spoiler Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest fad amongst the cool kids and the people who talk about the cool kids is a Netflix True Crime documentary series called <em>Making a Murderer<\/em> which not only has the cool kids in an uproar about an old murder case but<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/01\/07\/why-scott-walker-will-never-ever-issue-a-pardon-in-response-to-making-a-murderer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Washington Post<\/em> piece<\/a> designed to enflame the cool kids&#8217; ire against Bad Man Scott Walker, we have this bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(CAUTION: Some mild spoilers ahead if you haven&#8217;t seen the show.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dudette.  It&#8217;s a <em>documentary<\/em>.  Can a documentary have spoilers?<\/p>\n<p>Anything that really happened <em>that you don&#8217;t know<\/em> is a spoiler waiting to happen.  The modern education system just ruins all the good surprises.  Or it would if they taught history.  Do they?  I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a <em>documentary<\/em> with a <em>narrative<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest fad amongst the cool kids and the people who talk about the cool kids is a Netflix True Crime documentary series called Making a Murderer which not only has the cool kids in an uproar about an old murder case but In a Washington Post piece designed to enflame the cool kids&#8217; ire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}