Now that the next presidential election is gradually sneaking up on us, a memory from eight years ago has resurfaced. It was in November 2016, the morning that we all found out that you-know-who won the election.<\/p>\n
My fellow NYU professors and I were standing around, feeling numb. I said to the group “I think this is going to be really bad for the country.”<\/p>\n
“But look at the bright side,” one of my colleagues said. “It’s going to be great<\/i> for comedy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now that the next presidential election is gradually sneaking up on us, a memory from eight years ago has resurfaced. It was in November 2016, the morning that we all found out that you-know-who won the election. My fellow NYU professors and I were standing around, feeling numb. I said to the group “I think … Continue reading “Look at the bright side”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26341,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions\/26341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}