{"id":942,"date":"2008-05-27T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=942"},"modified":"2008-05-30T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T11:56:40","slug":"from-black-jacks-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/27\/from-black-jacks-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"from Black Jack&#8217;s basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[Note: Blackjack was a persona I used over twenty years ago, when I was editing &#8220;The 21&#8221;, a union newsletter for highschool teachers in our end of  Ontario.]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now it&#8217;s okay to be late by a day<br \/>\nor a month or a week with assignments;<br \/>\nand please don&#8217;t admit that you copied a bit<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all right: copyright&#8217;s a confinement.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the next thing the pundits will sing<br \/>\nwill be students are teaching the classes;<br \/>\nand knowledge itself will be stored on a shelf<br \/>\nwhile they shove their heads up their own assets.<\/p>\n<p>Surely these assets can see what will pass<br \/>\nif they practice this brand of stupidity:<br \/>\nthe path it will take will lead to the wake<br \/>\nof our country and eyes&#8217; high humidity.<\/p>\n<p>Someone tell me everything&#8217;s a dream<br \/>\nfor if I wake to this, I&#8217;ll have to scream.<\/p>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Note: Blackjack was a persona I used over twenty years ago, when I was editing &#8220;The 21&#8221;, a union newsletter for highschool teachers in our end of Ontario.] So now it&#8217;s okay to be late by a day or a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/27\/from-black-jacks-basement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3,44,17,24,416],"tags":[465,363,152,133,464,466,463],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-political-asides","category-screeds","category-serial","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-bosses","tag-education","tag-rhymed","tag-satire","tag-schools","tag-standards","tag-stupid-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}