{"id":134,"date":"2006-05-23T10:11:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/05\/23\/134\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T15:11:26","slug":"134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/05\/23\/134\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/kk\/\" title=\"Back at full operating capacity come fall, I hope.\">Caitlan<\/a> went out a week and a half ago and graduated from a small, private liberal arts school, after acing the comprehensive oral exams for two different programs (even though she&#8217;s a single major) and producing an Honors thesis, <i>summa cum laude<\/i>.  Oh, and she did it in three years.  She&#8217;s going to England in the fall to get a second bachelor&#8217;s degree, as the first and only successful applicant in her school&#8217;s credit-sharing program with Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>When I explained Maria&#8217;s educational progress at a family gathering a while back, I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mombo\/\" title=\"More coming someday maybe!\">my grandmother&#8217;s<\/a> eyes grow wider and wider:  yes, she went to an Ivy, yes, she&#8217;s going to be a medical doctor, oh, but right now she&#8217;s getting her PhD, and in brain sciences, right&#8211;and I had to laugh and admit the simple fact that my girlfriend is out of my league.  I should have looked around, then, at the women there:  my mother and grandmother, my aunts and my genius sister.  When you grew up seeing the standards set that high, what else can you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlan went out a week and a half ago and graduated from a small, private liberal arts school, after acing the comprehensive oral exams for two different programs (even though she&#8217;s a single major) and producing an Honors thesis, summa cum laude. Oh, and she did it in three years. She&#8217;s going to England in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,31,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caitlan","category-family","category-landmarks","category-maria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}