{"id":6082,"date":"2023-03-28T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:18:08","slug":"university-to-open-dumb-museum-in-interest-of-hearing-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/university-to-open-dumb-museum-in-interest-of-hearing-both-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"University to Open \u201cDumb Museum\u201d in Interest of Hearing Both Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HYDE PARK \u2014 As part of its longstanding institutional commitment to freedom of opinion, The University of Chicago will be opening the Dumb Museum of Something-or-Other in Spring 2024, University officials announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStudents have been enjoying our world-famous Smart Museum of Art,\u201d University President Paul Alivisatos told reporters Monday, \u201cso we thought it was only fair to give them another perspective. Who\u2019s to say that the Smart Museum is better? Who\u2019s to say that smart is better than dumb?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis opening is part of our new Kalven Report initiative to maintain neutrality and plausible deniability in all things,\u201d said Provost Jay Ellison. \u201cFor example, we\u2019re proud to announce we have no institutional stance on whether a hot dog is a sandwich, which pasta is the tallest, or whether genocide might be okay sometimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University also announced plans to open the Iversity of Chicago, the world\u2019s first institution dedicated to depriving students of knowledge and depositing eighty thousand dollars a year into their bank account.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis opening is part of our new Kalven Report initiative to maintain neutrality and plausible deniability in all things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}