{"id":6540,"date":"2013-10-25T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2013-10-31T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T04:35:18","slug":"nothing-inspires-advancement-like-an-advanced-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/25\/nothing-inspires-advancement-like-an-advanced-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing inspires advancement like an advanced degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I for one welcome our new semiliterate\u00e2\u20ac\u017d \u00a0MBA overlords.<\/strong><br \/>\nI saw this billboard on BART.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Advancement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6541\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Advancement-505x600.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Advancement-505x600.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Advancement-168x200.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Advancement-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Advancement-42x50.jpg 42w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Advancement.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The headline makes no sense whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering: advanced degrees don&#8217;t <strong>inspire<\/strong> advancement. One might argue that advanced degrees <strong>are<\/strong> advancement or that they <strong>help<\/strong> \u00a0the advancement of the person with the degree. But no one would ever say, &#8220;After getting my MBA, I was <strong>inspired<\/strong> to advance in my profession.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I for one welcome our new semiliterate\u00e2\u20ac\u017d \u00a0MBA overlords. I saw this billboard on BART. &nbsp; The headline makes no sense whatsoever. In case you&#8217;re wondering: advanced degrees don&#8217;t inspire advancement. One might argue that advanced degrees are advancement or that they help \u00a0the advancement of the person with the degree. But no one would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poor-design-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}