{"id":583,"date":"2005-12-23T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2005-12-23T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T03:38:00","slug":"583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stifle yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Community College Dean, an academic blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/in-praise-of-repression.html\">posts on coping with unhappy students<\/a> and on the desirability of &#8220;stifling yourself,&#8221; mainly so as not to tell the academic slackers what you really think of them.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a different, simpler version on a hatchback in Salida, Colo., yesterday, written with narrow white tape on the rear window:  &#038;lt\/YOURSELF&#038;gt<\/p>\n<p>Web-nerd humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stifle yourself Community College Dean, an academic blogger, posts on coping with unhappy students and on the desirability of &#8220;stifling yourself,&#8221; mainly so as not to tell the academic slackers what you really think of them. 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