{"id":110,"date":"2012-05-17T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T09:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/05\/17\/me-mitt-mitt-i-pranksters-bullies-mormons-jews-education-america\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T09:47:44","slug":"me-mitt-mitt-i-pranksters-bullies-mormons-jews-education-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/05\/me-mitt-mitt-i-pranksters-bullies-mormons-jews-education-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Me &#038; Mitt, Mitt &#038; I: Pranksters, Bullies, Mormons, Jews, Education&#8211;AMERICA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to write a monthly column for the <I>Ann Arbor Chronicle<\/i>.  This latest installment is about the school Mitt Romney and I attended, bullying, pranks, progress, identity politics, and how institutions seek to change over time.  It starts like this:<\/p>\n<div id=blkq>\nMitt Romney and I went to the same high school \u2013 three decades apart. This would be immaterial, except the Washington Post just published a fascinating 5,500-word remembrance of Mitt Romney\u2019s hijinks at Cranbrook, a high-pressure prep school in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.<br \/>\nI attended this same school in the 1990s; it\u2019s an architectural gem, the staff is excellent, the program an academic crucible. Later, as a University of Michigan student, I shared a broken-down house with three fellow Cranbrook alums. One was in a sociology class, and we were delighted when he revealed that his textbook listed Cranbrook as \u201cone of the last vestiges of American aristocracy.\u201d<br \/>\nBecause Mitt and I attended Cranbrook exactly 30 years apart, we ended up standing back-to-back on a balmy June evening in 2005 \u2013 the same year Mitt received the school\u2019s 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award. The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and I stood together at the lip of a deep, inset fountain, which gurgled contentedly, almost as though it was whispering <I>\u266a\u266bDaaaaave, I would be an excellent place for a GOP splaaashdown!\u266b<\/I><\/div>\n<p>The rest is here: <a title=\"The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Mitt and Me\" href=\"http:\/\/annarborchronicle.com\/2012\/05\/16\/in-it-for-the-money-mitt-and-me\/\">The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Mitt and Me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to write a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle. This latest installment is about the school Mitt Romney and I attended, bullying, pranks, progress, identity politics, and how institutions seek to change over time. It starts like this: Mitt Romney and I went to the same high school \u2013 three decades apart. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/05\/me-mitt-mitt-i-pranksters-bullies-mormons-jews-education-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Me &#038; Mitt, Mitt &#038; I: Pranksters, Bullies, Mormons, Jews, Education&#8211;AMERICA!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}