{"id":3283,"date":"2018-02-20T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:40:44","slug":"the-echo-eavesdrops-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/the-echo-eavesdrops-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Echo Eavesdrops &#8211; February 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12782 alignleft\" 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\" \/>\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\"><b> <\/b><b>\u201cI may look all wonderful in class, but trust me, I\u2019m dead on the inside.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u2013 outside the Learning Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking really hard. Cat\u2019 should be the past tense of cut.\u2019 Like You cat me open with scissors.'\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u2013 in the Writing Center<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Student: <b>\u201cApparently, the secret to writing papers is pasting your article of choice in a rewrite tool and refreshing like crazy.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Teacher: <b>*mid-laugh* \u201cWhat?!\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u2013 in a classroom<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>\u201cShe told me to come to the atrium because they\u2019re playing that one Moana song.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">\u2013 in the Goddard Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Student: <b>\u201cWe should host a sit-in in the cafeteria so they can bring waffle fries back.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Friend: <b>\u201cYou MAY just be onto something!\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u2013 in the cafeteria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;May I quote you on that?&#8221; is a common question a journalist asks during an interview. Here are just a few of the colorful comments that we&#8217;ve heard around campus. This time, we didn&#8217;t ask your permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-eavesdropping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","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=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}