{"id":2337,"date":"2015-10-07T17:54:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T22:54:56","slug":"harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2337","title":{"rendered":"Harvard&#8217;s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The showdown took place at the Eastern correctional facility in New York, a maximum-security prison where convicts can take courses taught by faculty from nearby Bard College, and where inmates have formed a popular debate club. Last month they invited the Ivy League undergraduates and this year\u2019s national debate champions over for a friendly competition.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel concluded that the Bard team had raised strong arguments that the Harvard team had failed to consider and declared the team of inmates victorious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2015\/oct\/07\/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates\">Harvard&#8217;s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates | Education | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The showdown took place at the Eastern correctional facility in New York, a maximum-security prison where convicts can take courses taught by faculty from nearby Bard College, and where inmates have formed a popular debate club. Last month they invited &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-2","tag-harvard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}