{"id":453,"date":"2010-03-29T15:40:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2010-03-29T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:40:47","slug":"dont-quote-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/dont-quote-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Quote Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea says that I&#8217;m simply too nice, but I do probably talk to too many students. It doesn&#8217;t help that I&#8217;m probably more opinionated than I ought to be. Combined with working in a journalism school, I find myself saying things that frequently find their way into print. Of course, I often wonder if anyone ultimately reads those things I say. A recent experience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redandblack.com\/2010\/03\/21\/editable-textbooks-available-online-in-august\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talking with a student about DynamicBooks<\/a> was a fairly good one. I have a tendency to talk through the complexity of an issue rather than making it clear cut, which either has me come off sounding like an idiot (which, perhaps I am) or on a side of the argument that I&#8217;m not on. But the student managed to capture that there are really several issues at play with this particular gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>While I wish the article that attempted to advance an argument, rather than just presenting Kent and I&#8217;s comments, it was an interesting experience in not feeling like only one aspect of my comments were taken into account in the writing of the article. I wonder if Kent feels the same way, it is his picture that made its way onto the page&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea says that I&#8217;m simply too nice, but I do probably talk to too many students. It doesn&#8217;t help that I&#8217;m probably more opinionated than I ought to be. Combined with working in a journalism school, I find myself saying things that frequently find their way into print. Of course, I often wonder if anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102,115,169],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discontinutity","tag-grady","tag-interview","tag-red-and-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}