{"id":3021,"date":"2013-07-04T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.braintank.ch\/wp\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2013-06-30T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T10:17:49","slug":"thoughts-for-graduates-this-is-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braintank.ch\/?p=3021","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for graduates &#8230; This is water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before my own graduation, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsforaction.org\/watch\/this_is_water\/\">short film<\/a> brings David Foster Wallace\u2019s address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College to live. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080213082423\/http:\/\/www.marginalia.org\/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html\">full speech<\/a>. Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/2013\/06\/this-is-water.html\" target=\"_blank\">@Swissmiss<\/a> for sharing. This is a lovely sample of how ones interpretation of the world shapes the thoughts that we have.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dotsub.com\/media\/6b8cc93f-3b53-486b-a1ce-025ffe6c9c52\/e\/m\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before my own graduation, this short film brings David Foster Wallace\u2019s address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College to live. Read the full speech. Many thanks to @Swissmiss for sharing. This is a lovely sample of how ones interpretation of the world shapes the thoughts that we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[765,764,766,767],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbeit","category-blog","tag-graduation","tag-mba","tag-strathclyde-2013","tag-swiss-center","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":326,"url":"https:\/\/braintank.ch\/?p=326","url_meta":{"origin":3021,"position":0},"title":"Das Wort zum Sonntag: 42","author":"admin","date":"27. 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