{"id":3718,"date":"2018-04-06T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2018-04-06T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:00:55","slug":"present-day-high-schoolers-actually-have-their-lives-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3718","title":{"rendered":"Present-Day High Schoolers Actually Have Their Lives Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Joseph Krzyston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the country\u2019s eyes turned to the high schoolers leading national protests this week, support has been widespread for the students regardless of political orientation. Meanwhile, a small but growing cadre of recent high school graduates is first and foremost baffled as to how any of these students got their acts together and did any of this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI remember my time in high school,\u201d said a recent grad, now a junior at Roanoke College, \u201cbut I can\u2019t say I remember it well. You know what I mean? Like, the big idea at that time was to organize for Friday night. The biggest logistical triumph we ever accomplished involved buying a bunch of beer from one of my buddy\u2019s weird neighbors. No mean feat, I will add.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The student went to great length to stress that he was in no way opposed to the students, and indeed had the utmost respect for them, but was primarily confused as to how they managed to get their acts together in a way that many college students cannot seem to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYeah, I mean, my friends and I are massive idiots, make no mistake. We can\u2019t even really get together to study for a test without most of us flaking or generally doing something else. I definitely couldn\u2019t have done that back then. Come to think of it, I couldn\u2019t do it now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Joseph Krzyston As the country\u2019s eyes turned to the high schoolers leading national protests this week, support has been widespread for the students regardless of political orientation. Meanwhile, a small but growing cadre of recent high school graduates is first and foremost baffled as to how any of these students got their acts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}