{"id":92,"date":"2003-02-14T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=92"},"modified":"2003-02-14T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2003-02-14T15:20:09","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*sniff* I wish I was back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/5177099.htm\">Santa Cruz.<\/a>  I love a good peace or civil rights protest and they never are as good back here as they were when I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\">UCSC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh President Bush&#8230; explain how exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/01\/20\/timep.affirm.action.tm\/\">you are anti-affirmative action when it was the only reason you actually got into Yale<\/a>.  I looked at the UM guidelines for admission and as a white female, there was nothing out of the ordinary.  I mean, in the extras category you get 20 points if:<br \/>\n-you are a Michigan state resident <i>(it&#8217;s a state-funded school &#8212; this is not unusual)<\/i><br \/>\n-you are an athlete that they want to recruit <i>(Yeah&#8230; let&#8217;s make them take that out so that all us non-athletes have a chance)<\/i><br \/>\nand finally&#8230;<br \/>\n-you are of a minority race <i>(Tell me with a straight face that a preppy white kid from a Michigan day school and a black kid from an inner city Detroit high school are going to have an equal footing in their coursework and admissions.  I&#8217;m waiting&#8230;)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*sniff* I wish I was back in Santa Cruz. I love a good peace or civil rights protest and they never are as good back here as they were when I was at UCSC. Oh President Bush&#8230; explain how exactly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=92\">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":{"_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}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}