{"id":107,"date":"2004-07-28T20:51:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/macphoenix.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2022-12-11T21:46:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T02:46:31","slug":"an-imagined-dialog-highlighting-the-deficiencies-of-our-educational-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/an-imagined-dialog-highlighting-the-deficiencies-of-our-educational-system\/","title":{"rendered":"An Imagined Dialog Highlighting the Deficiencies of Our Educational System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Fast Food Patron<\/i>: I&#8217;d like the fish sandwich value meal, please.<\/p>\n<p><i>Voice in Ordering Box<\/i>: That&#8217;ll be $5.43. Drive up to the first window, please.<\/p>\n<p><i>FFP<\/i>: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Fast Food Patron<\/i> drives up to First Window and hands <i>Cashier at First Window<\/i> a $20 and a $1.)<\/p>\n<p><i>Cashier at First Window<\/i>: That&#8217;ll be $4.99, please.<\/p>\n<p><i>FFP<\/i>: (confused) What about tax?<\/p>\n<p><i>CaFW<\/i>: Yeah&#8230; (pauses) What?<\/p>\n<p><i>FFP<\/i>: What about sales tax? You said $4.99. There&#8217;s tax, too.<\/p>\n<p><i>CaFW<\/i>: Yeah. (studies register, then nods) Yeah. That&#8217;s $4.99.<\/p>\n<p><i>FFP<\/i>: (resignedly) Okay!<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Fast Food Patron<\/i> reaches through First Window and grabs the single out of the <i>Cashier at Front Window<\/i>&#8217;s hand, to avoid further confusion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Food Patron: I&#8217;d like the fish sandwich value meal, please. Voice in Ordering Box: That&#8217;ll be $5.43. Drive up to the first window, please. FFP: Okay. (Fast Food Patron drives up to First Window and hands Cashier at First Window a $20 and a $1.) Cashier at First Window: That&#8217;ll be $4.99, please. FFP: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nj3d-1J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macphoenix.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}