{"id":3712,"date":"2018-04-06T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2018-04-06T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:00:23","slug":"commons-in-crisis-paper-plates-cause-mass-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"Commons in Crisis: Paper Plates Cause Mass Hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello everyone, or those left. It\u2019s Day Four of the post &#8211; apocalyptic world of the out-of-order Commons dishwasher. Students have gone mad on campus, causing nothing but mayhem and violence, so here\u2019s an update. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first day was fine, very little hysteria broke out, and why would it? We had seen this before, but give it a day or even two at most and we\u2019d be back to our bright ceramic plates and shatterproof plastic cups. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday rolled around, and while the masses wanted nothing more than to eat the delicacies of Panko Crusted Cod on reusable plates, we were met, yet again, with paper, plastic and sheer disappointment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thursday morning was tense, people were irritated, exhausted and just plain mad. True savagery began when a senior rebel commented on the school\u2019s Instagram post about on campus scenery: \u201cFix the dishwasher in commons.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The people rallied behind with 23 likes on his comment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thursday\u2019s lunch is a hazy memory, considering that\u2019s when the chaos broke. Sigma Chi brothers stood on tables while men\u2019s soccer players swung from the chandeliers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hid under the tables until the smoke cleared. I\u2019m writing from a panic room for now. I hope we can restore humanity and get back to the civil times, but only time will tell.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Shamira James Hello everyone, or those left. It\u2019s Day Four of the post &#8211; apocalyptic world of the out-of-order Commons dishwasher. Students have gone mad on campus, causing nothing but mayhem and violence, so here\u2019s an update. The first day was fine, very little hysteria broke out, and why would it? We had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3713,"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-3712","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\/04\/IMG_0502.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","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=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}