{"id":737,"date":"2009-01-30T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:51:27","slug":"the-gxat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/01\/30\/the-gxat\/","title":{"rendered":"The GXAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Crouch highlights the &#8220;Generation-X Aptitude Test&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture-making.com\/post\/the_gxat\/\">Culture Making<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first question on the GXAT [Generation X Aptitude Test, better known as the G-zat] is this:<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Do you want to change the world?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A. Yes, and I\u2019m proud to say we did it, <i>man. We changed the world.<\/i> Just look around you!<\/p>\n<p>B.<br \/>\nYes, absolutely, and I promise I will get back to doing that just as<br \/>\nsoon as interest rates return to where they\u2019re supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>C. <i>Omigod, omigod,<\/i> changing the world and helping people is, like, <i>totally<\/i> important to me! I worked in a soup kitchen once and it was <i>so<\/i> sad but the poor people there had <i>so<\/i> much dignity!<\/p>\n<p>D.<br \/>\nThe way you phrase that question is so . . . cheesy and absurd that I<br \/>\nam not even sure I want to continue with this pointless exercise.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the only question on the GXAT.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Crouch highlights the &#8220;Generation-X Aptitude Test&#8221; on Culture Making: The first question on the GXAT [Generation X Aptitude Test, better known as the G-zat] is this: 1. Do you want to change the world? A. Yes, and I\u2019m proud to say we did it, man. We changed the world. Just look around you! B. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}