{"id":6411,"date":"2014-05-20T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2014-05-20T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:00:24","slug":"wow-thats-a-commencement-address-id-like-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6411","title":{"rendered":"Wow.  That&#8217;s a commencement address I&#8217;d like to hear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, I have always liked PJ O&#8217;Rourke, but THIS is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/18\/my-commencement-speech-to-rutgers-geniuses-go-forth-and-fail.html\">smackdown!<\/a> I hope he&#8217;s taking his BP and Cholestrol meds, we can&#8217;t afford to lose him anytime soon. <\/p>\n<p>Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Here you are graduating from Rutgers, which is, as I mentioned, the 69th-best university in America.  Maybe Rutgers should add more vegan selections to its cafeteria fare. U.S. News &#038; World Report scorekeepers go for that kind of thing. Actually, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re tied for 69th with Texas A&#038;M, an NFL first-round draft with a small college attached.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip, my dear old friend and confidant mademoiselle Jenny. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, I have always liked PJ O&#8217;Rourke, but THIS is a smackdown! I hope he&#8217;s taking his BP and Cholestrol meds, we can&#8217;t afford to lose him anytime soon. Money quote: &#8220;Here you are graduating from Rutgers, which is, as I mentioned, the 69th-best university in America. Maybe Rutgers should add more vegan selections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}