{"id":5383,"date":"2014-04-01T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2014-04-01T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T20:04:01","slug":"blessings-thin-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/blessings-thin-envelope\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings of the Thin Envelope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of my clients and other young people I know just received their college acceptance and rejection letters. Not surprisingly, some are ecstatic and others are devastated.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Bruni, the New York Times columnist, wrote<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/01\/opinion\/bruni-our-crazy-college-crossroads.html?action=click&amp;module=Search&amp;region=searchResults%230&amp;version=&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry213%23%2Four+crazy+college+crossroads&amp;_r=0\"> a piece<\/a> today that put the exercise of college acceptance and rejection into a healthy perspective. Reading the column won&#8217;t completely ease the pain of rejection, but hopefully it will take a bit of the edge off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of my clients and other young people I know just received their college acceptance and rejection letters. Not surprisingly, some are ecstatic and others are devastated. Frank Bruni, the New York Times columnist, wrote a piece today that put the exercise of college acceptance and rejection into a healthy perspective. Reading the column [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1820],"tags":[669,670,671,672,673,501,675,676,597,677],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-2nd-tier","tag-college","tag-college-acceptance","tag-elite","tag-gpa","tag-grades","tag-high-school","tag-rejection","tag-sat","tag-university"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}