{"id":114,"date":"2016-02-08T18:39:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T23:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/?p=114"},"modified":"2016-02-08T18:39:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T23:39:37","slug":"story-5-the-interestings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/uncategorized\/story-5-the-interestings\/","title":{"rendered":"Story 5: The Interestings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Object 1: It?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is ‘IT’ and how do I get it?<\/p>\n

Object 2: What is talent, anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Object 3: A lesson in calming the fuck down<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eagerness<\/a><\/p>\n

Object 4: More questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where does unused talent go?<\/p>\n

Object 5: Jules Jacobson, looking back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirty years ago, I went to summer camp and I didn\u2019t think I was good at anything. I was a run-of-the-mill kid: liked to be outside, didn\u2019t like to go to school, didn\u2019t have passions or talents of any kind. But then one day at camp they made me get up on stage and do some funny dance \u2014 some chicken dance or something\u2026I was mortified. And \u2014 I can\u2019t believe I still remember this, it\u2019s been so long\u2026decades…but I remember I heard people start laughing. And I could tell by the uproar that they were laughing with<\/em> me and not at<\/em> me\u2026 And then I got off the stage and sat back down… and thought, “Maybe, just maybe, I have a little bit of talent”. Back then, I made people laugh. But now? Now I\u2019m a lawyer. Nothing funny about that. At all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Object 1: It? What is ‘IT’ and how do I get it? Object 2: What is talent, anyway? Object 3: A lesson in calming the fuck down Eagerness Object 4: More questions Where does unused talent go? Object 5: Jules Jacobson, looking back. Thirty years ago, I went to summer camp and I didn\u2019t think … Continue reading Story 5: The Interestings<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thea350-16s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}