{"id":2135,"date":"2021-02-15T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2021-02-15T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:42:16","slug":"how-digital-credentials-will-diminish-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2021\/02\/15\/how-digital-credentials-will-diminish-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"How Digital Credentials Will Diminish Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ryancraig\/2021\/02\/05\/how-digital-credentials-will-diminish-degrees\/?sh=67d81b4c3c8d\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Digital Credentials Will Diminish Degrees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>by Ryan Craig, Senior Contributor on Education<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the realm of credentials, degrees are easily the most famous. Originating as celebrity credentials \u2013 an easy way for sons of the merchant elite to demarcate themselves from the hoi polloi \u2013 today they\u2019re as well known as celebrities. And just as a celebrity association imbues a product with a few vapid characteristics for which the celebrity is known (Ryan Reynolds? Quirky!), degrees are also a lazy shorthand.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Digital Credentials Will Diminish Degrees by Ryan Craig, Senior Contributor on Education &#8220;In the realm of credentials, degrees are easily the most famous. Originating as celebrity credentials \u2013 an easy way for sons of the merchant elite to demarcate themselves from the hoi polloi \u2013 today they\u2019re as well known as celebrities. And just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}