{"id":1003,"date":"2008-05-08T05:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:33","slug":"my-favorite-pauschisms-earnest-is-better-than-hip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Pauschisms; Earnest Is Better Than Hip"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Earnest is better than hip.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hip&#8221; people love parodies. But there&#8217;s no such thing as a timeless parody, is there? I have more respect for the earnest guy who does something that can last for generations, and that hip people feel the <em>need<\/em> to parody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Randy Pausch in <em>The Last Lecture<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--15ac476935773bca580d9af971d6dba9--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earnest is better than hip. I&#8217;ll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,95,94,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pauschisms","category-randy-pausch","category-the-last-lecture","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}