{"id":195,"date":"2005-12-13T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2005-12-13T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T21:08:00","slug":"stupid-things-my-students-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/13\/stupid-things-my-students-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Things My Students Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>One of my biggest regrets of the last 10 years is that I&#8217;ve never kept a list.  It could win an award or something.  One on the list would be the guy who brought the unexploded mortar into his dorm room.  (He&#8217;s now getting his PhD from a prestigious university in Biblical Studies.)   But today&#8217;s award would go to the gal who tried to bring a bullet in her backpack across the border from Egypt into Israel.  Of course she &#8220;didn&#8217;t know about it.&#8221;  But that didn&#8217;t make Israeli security go any easier on her.  After that fiasco, you&#8217;d think she learned her lesson.  But no, guess what Israeli security found in her luggage as she tried to board a plane leaving Israel?  And no, it wasn&#8217;t the same bullet, because that one was taken away from her.  So I&#8217;m trying to figure it out &#8211; was she just clueless?  Was it an accident?  Actually, I fear something more sinister.  The whole time that she was here we never had any idea that she really was a foreign agent involved in clandestine activities.We might have to change the name of our school from IBEX to ISEX (Israel Smuggling EXtension).<\/div>\n<div>:-)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my biggest regrets of the last 10 years is that I&#8217;ve never kept a list. It could win an award or something. One on the list would be the guy who brought the unexploded mortar into his dorm room. (He&#8217;s now getting his PhD from a prestigious university in Biblical Studies.) But today&#8217;s\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/13\/stupid-things-my-students-do\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}