
{"id":2064,"date":"2017-11-10T12:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:38:44","slug":"the-echo-eavesdrops-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/the-echo-eavesdrops-november-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Echo eavesdrops &#8211; November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12782 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Josiah-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Josiah, RCTC student\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Josiah-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Josiah-1228x1280.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Josiah-768x800.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Josiah-1474x1536.jpg 1474w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Josiah.jpg 1908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMay I quote you on that?\u201d is a common question a journalist asks during an interview. Here are just a few of the colorful comments that we\u2019ve heard around campus<span class=\"s1\">. This time, we didn\u2019t ask your permission. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Teacher, pointing at complicated equation on board:<b> \u201cWhat would you do about this?\u201d<br>\n<\/b>Student: <b>\u201cCry.\u201d<br>\n<\/b>\u2013 in a math class<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Person 1: <b>\u201cCollege is a scam.\u201d<br>\n<\/b>Person 2: <b>\u201cThen why are you still here?\u201d<br>\n<\/b>Person 1: <b>\u201cBecause work is an even bigger scam, and my Wi-Fi is spotty.\u201d<br>\n<\/b>\u2013 outside the Goddard Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>\u201cShut up, you have a deathly fear of tomatoes, lettuce, and everything else you\u2019d find in a salad!\u201d<br>\n<\/b>\u2013 in the Learning Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>\u201cHave you ever been attacked by a canary? Hon, it\u2019s a freaking nightmare. They\u2019re like tiny yellow grim reapers.\u201d<br>\n<\/b>\u2013 in the cafeteria<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>\u201cI\u2019m going to play the devil\u2019s avocado here.\u201d<br>\n<\/b>\u2013 in the Heintz Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>\u201cLet\u2019s move away. I think she\u2019s listening in on our conversation.\u201d<br>\n<\/b>\u2013 after being busted for eavesdropping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMay I quote you on that?\u201d is a common question a journalist asks during an interview. Here are just a few of the colorful comments that we\u2019ve heard around campus. This time, we didn\u2019t ask your permission. Teacher, pointing at complicated equation on board: \u201cWhat would you do about this?\u201d Student: \u201cCry.\u201d \u2013 in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}