{"id":349,"date":"2004-09-16T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/boosterism\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T14:04:00","slug":"boosterism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/boosterism\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosterism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that Preposterous is getting occasional hits from the <a href=\"http:\/\/collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu\/level3.asp?id=457\">University of Chicago admissions site<\/a>.  They are letting the prospective students know that I have a blog, as if that&#8217;s a good thing!<\/p>\n<p>So I guess I might as well point out that the UofC has been ranked Number One in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college\/research\/rankings\/rankingDetails.asp?CategoryID=1&#038;TopicID=9\">Best Overall Academic Experience for Undergraduates<\/a> by the Princeton Review.  Not too shabby for a place known lovingly as &#8220;Where Fun Goes to Die.&#8221;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that Preposterous is getting occasional hits from the University of Chicago admissions site. They are letting the prospective students know that I have a blog, as if that&#8217;s a good thing! So I guess I might as well point out that the UofC has been ranked Number One in the Best Overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}