{"id":565,"date":"2006-07-17T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T21:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=565"},"modified":"2020-01-01T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T04:24:07","slug":"the-rebellious-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/the-rebellious-major\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;rebellious major&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, Thomas Benton, &#8220;the pseudonym of an associate professor of English at a Midwestern liberal-arts college,&#8221; writes about why students choose to major in English.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>English is, among my undergraduates at least, one of the last refuges of the classical notion of a liberal-arts education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I ended up a Comparative Literature major because I recognized, however dimly, that academia would let me postpone a bit longer the pressures of real adulthood&#8211;it would let me savor, for a few years at least, the freedom to do nothing but think, and read books, and write . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Thomas Benton, &#8220;the pseudonym of an associate professor of English at a Midwestern liberal-arts college,&#8221; writes about why students choose to major in English. English is, among my undergraduates at least, one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/the-rebellious-major\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[1274,1273,241],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-comparative-literature-degree","tag-english-major","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}