{"id":732,"date":"2010-07-24T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2010\/07\/24\/except-dragon-and-unicorn-discuss-the-value-of-a-college-education\/"},"modified":"2010-07-24T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T21:29:00","slug":"except-dragon-and-unicorn-discuss-the-value-of-a-college-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2010\/07\/24\/except-dragon-and-unicorn-discuss-the-value-of-a-college-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Except &#8211; Dragon and Unicorn Discuss the Value of a College Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/TEtbXfLSufI\/AAAAAAAAAWo\/Q3YMsX41jBI\/s1600\/Gorgeous+Empress.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/TEtbXfLSufI\/AAAAAAAAAWo\/Q3YMsX41jBI\/s400\/Gorgeous+Empress.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Here&#8217;s an excerpt just for fun. Both characters are devi, magical creatures who spend much of their time in human form. He is the Dragon Emperor, and she, a Sea Unicorn, is his prisoner. Her people are pacifists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He offered her the goblet, but she shook her head. He shrugged, lounged in the chair and gulped deeply.  \u201cWhat do you do all day long in a city where no one ever fights? I can\u2019t even imagine it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commune. Share ourselves. Don\u2019t look at me like that. I don\u2019t mean physically. I speak of emotional connections, intellectual connections. I myself was enrolled in my sixth decade of college.\u201d She added proudly, \u201cWe have a number of universities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you study with no history of war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learn how to build castles in the sand. To herd bubbles. To discern at once and discuss at length. To distinguish between melancholy and nostalgia, between reverence and envy. To see a world in a grain of sand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sympathize. My schooling was a complete waste as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know dragons pursued higher education. What did you study?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow to drink, fornicate and devour the hearts of one\u2019s enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked appalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness major,\u201d he explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt just for fun. Both characters are devi, magical creatures who spend much of their time in human form. He is the Dragon Emperor, and she, a Sea Unicorn, is his prisoner. Her people are pacifists. He offered her the goblet, but she shook her head. He shrugged, lounged in the chair and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}