{"id":3612,"date":"2018-02-22T23:51:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2018-02-22T23:51:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:51:40","slug":"students-shirk-duties-due-to-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"Students Shirk Duties Due to Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Joseph Krzyston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across campus, students are starting to reconsider commitments of time and emotion that they made in the bleak midwinter. When life seemed so meaningless and many of us over-engaged to fill our personal voids. However, these dark spaces are now illuminated by the warmth and light of the sun. As life feels better, students are reevaluating their choices en masse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think it\u2019s sort of a coping mechanism,\u201d says one sophomore, \u201cone that makes a lot of sense in the winter. It makes sense to fill your day with meetings and obligations when the whole world looks like a desolate frozen hellscape, but now that it\u2019s nice outside, it\u2019s way harder to say yes to the asinine nonsense that I signed up for through student organizations back in late November.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not just clubs that are suffering, though. Across campus, people are abandoning responsibilities of various natures to soak up some sun, or just generally to participate in the broader world in a capacity more organic than those made possible by rigidly defined social constructions. Relationships, too, are in trouble, as sundresses and whatever men wear in the summer that women like (tell me it\u2019s not cargo shorts) lead students to reconsider agreements made in the colder months, when the number one question on anybody\u2019s mind was warmth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s a crazy paradigm,\u201d said one professor, \u201cand I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s sustainable. I mean, it\u2019s just so nice out. Today, not a single student showed up to class, and I don\u2019t really think I can blame them. I mean, have you <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">been<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> outside lately? Makes me wonder why we work at all.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Joseph Krzyston Across campus, students are starting to reconsider commitments of time and emotion that they made in the bleak midwinter. When life seemed so meaningless and many of us over-engaged to fill our personal voids. However, these dark spaces are now illuminated by the warmth and light of the sun. As life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/946493abfdd1830d1a655e053b7dfa05.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}