{"id":3696,"date":"2007-08-20T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2007-08-20T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:54:35","slug":"lloyd-thacker-article-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=3696","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Thacker Article&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2007\/08\/20\/activist_boycotts_school_rankings\/\" title=\"Boston Globe\">AP reports<\/a> on this activist that hates the annual U.S. News &#038; World Report guide to the nation&#8217;s &#8220;best&#8221; colleges and universities.  He has gotten 62 schools to agree with him.  <\/p>\n<p>He states that colleges have been turned into a product, students into customers, and admissions into a high-priced game that has to be played.  I have to fully agree with him here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reports on this activist that hates the annual U.S. News &#038; World Report guide to the nation&#8217;s &#8220;best&#8221; colleges and universities. He has gotten 62 schools to agree with him. He states that colleges have been turned into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=3696\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}