{"id":651,"date":"2003-05-14T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2003-05-14T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=651"},"modified":"2003-05-14T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2003-05-14T17:33:49","slug":"9999-of-high-school-seniors-cant-read-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"99.99% of High School Seniors Can&#8217;t Read Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t like this when <b>I<\/b> was in school: &#8220;<a title=\"BBspot - Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/News\/2001\/03\/perl_test.html\">Recent results from the standardized Perl Fluency Test<\/a> showed that 99.99% of US high school seniors can&#8217;t read Perl.  This disturbing statistic shows that American students are painfully unprepared for life after graduation.&#8221;  One of many good laughs over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/\">BBspot<\/a>. Here&#8217;s another of my favorites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/News\/2000\/9\/linux_laid.html\">Linux Developer Gets Laid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t like this when I was in school: &#8220;Recent results from the standardized Perl Fluency Test showed that 99.99% of US high school seniors can&#8217;t read Perl. This disturbing statistic shows that American students are painfully unprepared for life after graduation.&#8221; One of many good laughs over at BBspot. Here&#8217;s another of my favorites: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}