{"id":62,"date":"2016-08-26T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-08-21T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T21:41:39","slug":"beloit-mindset-list-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/08\/26\/beloit-mindset-list-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloit mindset list 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Beloit College releases its <em>Mindset List<\/em>. Although the list has its critics (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloitmindlessness.com\/must-be-destroyed\/)\">http:\/\/www.beloitmindlessness.com\/must-be-destroyed\/<\/a>) and it&#8217;s been parodied by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/graphic\/look-class-2019-51190\">The Onion<\/a>, I always get a kick out of looking it over. It reminds me just how old I am. Here are a few gems from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beloit.edu\/mindset\/2020\/\">this year&#8217;s list<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There has always been a digital swap meet called eBay.<\/li>\n<li>There have always been Cadillac Escalades.<\/li>\n<li>West Nile has always been a virus found in the US.<\/li>\n<li>They have never had to watch or listen to programs at a scheduled time.<\/li>\n<li>Vaccines have always erroneously been linked to autism.<\/li>\n<li>They have no memory of Bob Dole promoting Viagra.<\/li>\n<li>John Elway and Wayne Gretzky have always been retired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Beloit College releases its Mindset List. Although the list has its critics (http:\/\/www.beloitmindlessness.com\/must-be-destroyed\/) and it&#8217;s been parodied by The Onion, I always get a kick out of looking&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/08\/26\/beloit-mindset-list-2020\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}