{"id":22,"date":"2004-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=22"},"modified":"2004-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"buena-vista-university-is-a-hotbed-of-activist-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/25\/buena-vista-university-is-a-hotbed-of-activist-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Buena Vista University Is A Hotbed Of Activist Dissent!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting is the new boring, so I’m trying something new. Presenting the world’s most boring article. It’s called “Chalking Proposal Approved” and it comes courtesy of The Tack, the Buena Vista University<\/A> newspaper<\/A>. It’s impossibly tedious yet endlessly entertaining.<\/p>\n

The article describes the new BVU policy on chalking, a popular form of radical anarchism<\/A> as practiced at liberal arts<\/A> colleges (graffiti<\/A> to you and me…). Specifically designed to protect free speech<\/A>, the policy is a work of art that took two years to develop. Of course, there hasn’t been a single campus chalking in that entire time, but if it ever happens the Buena Vista University community will be prepared. Here are the basics: chalking is now allowed in only a few designated areas; chalkings must be signed by their chalkers; and chalkings will be washed away every week. If you find a chalking offensive you may submit a complaint, and a three-person committee will be formed to decide whether the chalking is inappropriate. Thank goodness this is all settled and we can get back to our lives.<\/p>\n

If you feel the need, read the full article<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting is the new boring, so I’m trying something new. Presenting the world’s most boring article. It’s called “Chalking Proposal Approved” and it comes courtesy of The Tack, the Buena Vista University newspaper. It’s impossibly tedious yet endlessly entertaining. The article describes the new BVU policy on chalking, a popular form of radical anarchism as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[80,237,487,543,634,1192,1311,1527,1778,1879,2885,2892,3130],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-80","tag-anarchism","tag-boring","tag-buena-vista-university","tag-chalking","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-graffiti","tag-interesting","tag-liberal-arts","tag-march","tag-student-newspaper","tag-subcultures","tag-united-states","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}