{"id":2460,"date":"2012-01-02T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2012-01-02T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T17:08:09","slug":"college-students-view-of-american-dream-government-give-me-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/college-students-view-of-american-dream-government-give-me-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"College Students View of American Dream, Government Give Me Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O-eQsbeCUVQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"360\" height=\"274\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They are the students who grew up under a full blown entitlement upbringing. Some of their parents are the children of 60&#8217;s hippies who laid the groundwork for this nightmare today. What do you expect from those who are told &#8220;you are great, you are the best at whatever you do, heres a trophy for just showing up&#8221; generation?! If they suck at a sport, playing an instrument, singing, whatever tell them it&#8217;s you job as their parent to be honest and truthful BUT ENCOURAGE them to TRY SOMETHING ELSE that they could\/will be good at!<\/p>\n<p>This nation needs huge dose of Simon Cowell honesty to counteract the &#8216;Oprahnization&#8217; of &#8220;you are the best&#8221; (even though you really suck) damage that has been done!! Folks take a page from Glenn Becks show grab their ribbons, certificates, plaques and trophies for participating and destroy them! You will be doing them a favor in the long-run, since when did we become people who are okay with mediocracy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are the students who grew up under a full blown entitlement upbringing. Some of their parents are the children of 60&#8217;s hippies who laid the groundwork for this nightmare today. What do you expect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13,596,213,2126],"tags":[4813,4801,4816,4799,4818,179,2466,4820,174,4809,4805,4802,1339,1340,340,4800,4807,1145,4821,16,4812,4814,1863,4810,4803,4806,4815,4819,2563,4811,4804,250,4808,4817],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}