{"id":2493,"date":"2013-10-01T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2013-10-01T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:40:41","slug":"graduation-speeches-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/graduation-speeches-so-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation speeches&#8230;so what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timminchin.com\/2013\/09\/25\/occasional-address\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> this talk <\/a>by Tim Minchin earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me of this aspirational <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wmEbO58chac)\" rel=\"nofollow\">graduation speech <\/a>by Don Berwick last year to a bunch of medics in the US.<\/p>\n<p>And this one by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_failure.html \" rel=\"nofollow\">JK Rowling<\/a> a few years ago, on the benefits of failure.<\/p>\n<p>At one of my daughters graduation ceremonies last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviddownton.com\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Downton <\/a>summed up many of these sentiments quite pithily \u2013 arguing for the use of the Andy Warhol mantra of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/d4zbrwedp9wunkn\/SO%20WHAT%20david%20downton.MP4\" rel=\"nofollow\">So what\u201d<\/a> when things don\u2019t go right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this talk by Tim Minchin earlier this week. It reminded me of this aspirational graduation speech by Don Berwick last year to a bunch of medics in the US. And this one by JK Rowling a few years ago, on the benefits of failure. At one of my daughters graduation ceremonies last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,128],"tags":[50,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}