{"id":1732,"date":"2004-11-23T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:29:27","slug":"1732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/1732\/","title":{"rendered":"More Useless Than an English Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Important quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/local\/index.php?ntid=18940\" target=\"_new\">this article<\/a> about the author of <i>Fast Food Nation<\/i>&#8216;s week performance at University of Wisconsin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was looking for more of a venue for action,&#8221; said Kirsten Jordan, a UW-Madison student <b>majoring in geography<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A major in geography?  Ha-ha!  That will prepare you for <i>anything<\/i> for any number of years until the Bush administration rewrites world maps and alters world climate.  Also, clear-cuts and strip mines to alter topography.  So in the next four years, about the time this kid is graduating, all that book-learning will be useless.<\/p>\n<p>Hope she&#8217;s smart, like me, and picked up a useful second major like philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2004_11_01_althouse_archive.html#110121781400134230\" target=\"_new\">Ann Althouse<\/a>.  Well, not on <i>Ann Althouse<\/i>, but on her blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important quote from this article about the author of Fast Food Nation&#8216;s week performance at University of Wisconsin: &#8220;I was looking for more of a venue for action,&#8221; said Kirsten Jordan, a UW-Madison student majoring in geography. A major in geography? Ha-ha! That will prepare you for anything for any number of years until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20832,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/20832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}