{"id":1607,"date":"2004-11-23T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T01:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/11\/23\/student-excuses\/"},"modified":"2004-11-23T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T01:44:25","slug":"student-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/11\/23\/student-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Student excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a802'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I teach undergrads, I get a lot of excuses.&nbsp; But they&#8217;re<br \/>\nusually pretty lame.&nbsp; On days when papers are due, computers have<br \/>\nserious problems three hours before the deadline, printers go on the<br \/>\nfritz, roommates have emotional crises that must be tended to, and so<br \/>\nforth.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d be less insulting if there were more believable.&nbsp; But<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re usually pretty unoriginal, and the same &#8220;problems&#8221; come up all<br \/>\nthe time, and they also seem much more common than I have ever noticed<br \/>\notherwise.<\/p>\n<p>I try to tell them that I&#8217;m pretty good at sniffing out the relative<br \/>\nveracity of stuff like this &#8212; it&#8217;s my business after all.&nbsp; But<br \/>\nthat rarely seems to settle into heads, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I teach undergrads, I get a lot of excuses.&nbsp; But they&#8217;re usually pretty lame.&nbsp; On days when papers are due, computers have serious problems three hours before the deadline, printers go on the fritz, roommates have emotional crises that must be tended to, and so forth. They&#8217;d be less insulting if there were more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivorytower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-pV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}