{"id":632,"date":"2014-12-23T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=632"},"modified":"2014-12-23T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:13:42","slug":"the-term-paper-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"The Term Paper Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a university in New England where the students operated a &#8220;bank&#8221; of term papers and other homework assignments. There were papers to suit all needs and  as it would look odd if an undistinguished student suddenly handed in a brilliant essay, there were papers for an A grade, a B grade and a C grade.<\/p>\n<p>A student who had spent the weekend on pursuits other than his assignment, went to the &#8220;bank&#8221; and as his course was a standard one he took out a paper for a inconspicuous C, retyped it and handed the work in.<\/p>\n<p>In due course he received it back with the professor&#8217;s comments &#8220;I wrote this paper myself twenty years ago. I always thought it should have had an A, and now I am glad to give it one!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a university in New England where the students operated a &#8220;bank&#8221; of term papers and other homework assignments. There were papers to suit all needs and as it would look odd if an undistinguished student suddenly handed in a brilliant essay, there were papers for an A grade, a B grade and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1421,1478],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collegeschool","tag-term-paper","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}