{"id":665,"date":"2011-07-08T01:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T01:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:07:31","slug":"high-school-graduations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Rant #16: High School Graduations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can we stop making such a big deal about high school graduations. Every June, people go nuts for the Class of 20XX, as if their class is the greatest thing ever. I see balloons, decorated cars, ads in the paper, parties, kids walking around like they own the world.\u00a0 Stop!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Class of 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fashionstinks.com\/c\/class_of_2010_shirt-p235297235641348180utzl_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">You&#39;re Not Special<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->Graduating from high school is something you are <strong>supposed<\/strong> to do.\u00a0 We start school in Kindergarten and continue until we finish 12th grade.\u00a0 Then we are on our own.<\/p>\n<p>It actually takes more effort <strong>not<\/strong> to graduate, than it does to graduate.\u00a0 Unless you get pregnant and have a kid, or you end up in jail, there really isn&#8217;t a good reason for someone not to finish high school.\u00a0 High school is easy, and this politically correct world we live in is making it easier. Complain, or threaten to complain, and you get your way.\u00a0 All you have to do is show up, it&#8217;s not that difficult.<\/p>\n<a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrinkofsanityshow.com%2F%3Fp%3D665&count=horizontal&related=&text=Rant #16: High School Graduations' class='twitter-share-button' data-text='Rant #16: High School Graduations' data-url='https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/?p=665' data-counturl='https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/?p=665' data-count='horizontal' data-via='brinkofsanity3'><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we stop making such a big deal about high school graduations. Every June, people go nuts for the Class<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1142],"tags":[1472,1474,1473,966,1469,1465,1466,1459,1471,1467,1458,1470,953,63,15,1468],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1001-rants","tag-celebrate","tag-celebrating","tag-celebration","tag-class","tag-easy","tag-graduate","tag-graduating","tag-graduation","tag-hard","tag-high","tag-high-school","tag-not","tag-of","tag-pregnant","tag-rant","tag-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}