{"id":89,"date":"2008-01-02T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/02\/a-dramatic-prairie-dog-ate-my-final\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:21:42","slug":"a-dramatic-prairie-dog-ate-my-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/a-dramatic-prairie-dog-ate-my-final\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dramatic Prairie Dog Ate My Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you had surveyed the Facebook status of <a href=\"http:\/\/cct.georgetown.edu\" title=\"Communication, Culture &amp; Technology\" target=\"_blank\">CCT<\/a> students during finals you would have seen something strange. During finals you always see a predictable number of Facebook\/IM\/&lt;communication device here&gt; messages  that are mildly suicidal. I must admit that I took to wandering around the library in the middle of the night (taking a &#8220;break&#8221; from writing my papers) and navigating to <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2007\/12\/13\/goodbye-cruel-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">this LOLcat<\/a> on a dozen or so catalog computers. (I have been informed that this is not funny, but at 4:30 am I found it hysterical.)<\/p>\n<p>1st year students in CCT, however, had a different type of project ahead of them. There were requirements, of course, but nothing to restrict the form of the final. I think Tatyana&#8217;s Facebook status captured it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Tatyana is I can&#8217;t believe i&#8217;m writing a monologue as a FINAL PAPER. :P.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a tale of  former student (and by &#8220;former student&#8221; I mean my friend Molly Moran, and by &#8220;tale&#8221; I mean she confirm the story) who turned in a maniquine covered in philosphy quote for her final; a sculptural piece of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>As for me? You remember this guy right? Well, would you like to the <a href=\"http:\/\/whatknows.com\/document\/academic\/505\/final.html\" target=\"_blank\">biography of the Dramatic Prairie Dog<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jHjFxJVeCQs?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had surveyed the Facebook status of CCT students during finals you would have seen something strange. During finals you always see a predictable number of Facebook\/IM\/&lt;communication device here&gt; messages that are mildly suicidal. I must admit that I took to wandering around the library in the middle of the night (taking a &#8220;break&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-1r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}