{"id":4496,"date":"2019-04-20T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2019-09-21T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T00:17:54","slug":"this-sapien-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"This Sapien Survived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Lorin Brice Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This has been a long and tiring semester. I feel stupid and dumb and tired and foolish. That was how I felt the entire semester. But now I know that that is not true. I am not stupid. I have worth. I can solve problems. I can do things. My friends trust me and I trust them. I am so excited for this summer. I am so excited to hang out and make memories. I can\u2019t wait to be productive. I can\u2019t wait to have fun. I can\u2019t wait. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love learning at RC. I am so excited to keep learning over the summer. I can&#8217;t wait to make money. I just feel alive and ready for the future. The future is not to be feared. The future is not scary. It is not trying to trick you. It is not a trap. It is a natural evolution. I will evolve with the future. We are more than the sum of our parts. We are better then one stupid paper or a presentation or whatever academic thing is defining you as not worthy of whatever. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human beings are not failures. The summer will remind us all that. Homo sapiens are a species that ruthlessly survives and wins. Our primitive monkey selves will keep shuffling down the evolutionary coil until we meet God. We are too far along now to give up. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Lorin Brice Hall This has been a long and tiring semester. I feel stupid and dumb and tired and foolish. That was how I felt the entire semester. But now I know that that is not true. I am not stupid. I have worth. I can solve problems. I can do things. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3802,"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-4496","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\/09\/roanoke-college_1533749302492.jpg_51093290_ver1.0_1280_720.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","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=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}