{"id":1330,"date":"2010-09-01T22:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T03:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/09\/01\/big-ideas\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T22:18:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T03:18:26","slug":"big-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/09\/01\/big-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"big ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read any of these yet, but the Chronicle Review&#8217;s tenth-anniversary <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/section\/The-Chronicle-Review\/41\/\">What&#8217;s the Big Idea?<\/a> forum features a good cast of characters, including Peter Singer, Parker Palmer, James Elkins, and others (including Jaron Lanier, of all people, writing about &#8220;The End of Human Specialness&#8221;). Nice to see my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Elemental-Accounting\/124140\/\">Saleem Ali<\/a> up there, too. (That, I think, is called a &#8220;shout out&#8221; nowadays. Hey, I was a DJ too, many moons ago.)<\/p>\n<p>The other thing worth shouting out about is the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaup.org\/AAUP\/about\/gensec\/let\/oct7.htm\">National Day of Action to Defend Public Education<\/a>, being organized by the AAUP for October 7. (You might get more of those kinds of announcements here as I get deeper into my new role as secretary of the faculty union.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t read any of these yet, but the Chronicle Review&#8217;s tenth-anniversary What&#8217;s the Big Idea? forum features a good cast of characters, including Peter Singer, Parker Palmer, James Elkins, and others (including Jaron Lanier, of all people, writing about &#8220;The End of Human Specialness&#8221;). Nice to see my colleague Saleem Ali up there, too. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-ls","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}