{"id":7634,"date":"2026-05-17T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:49:54","slug":"an-open-letter-to-my-professors-if-congress-can-take-a-vacation-when-they-have-work-to-do-why-cant-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/an-open-letter-to-my-professors-if-congress-can-take-a-vacation-when-they-have-work-to-do-why-cant-i\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to My Professors: If Congress Can Take a Vacation When They Have Work to Do, Why Can\u2019t I?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Professors,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y\u2019all know I have a lot going on. Between coursework, internship applications, and dealing with The Blobby Green Thing that has been growing on my dirty laundry, I barely have any time to take a day to myself to relax. So, imagine my delight when I saw that Congress was taking an Easter vacation during the latest government shutdown!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s just fantastic that Congress managed to protect its recreation time even though so many people are dependent on all the things to do. In fact, I think Congress should serve as a model for us all. Inspired by their wonderful example, I, too, will take a vacation from the many very important things I have to do and hope nothing bad happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, it\u2019s not like airport lines will get any longer if I don\u2019t finish reading <em>Old Man Goriot <\/em>by Tuesday. It\u2019s not like gas prices will continue to climb if I don\u2019t go to my collaborative learning session. And it\u2019s definitely not like I\u2019ll be responsible for World War III if I don\u2019t submit my <em>Shady Dealer <\/em>articles by the deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because even in my absence, The Blobby Green Thing will continue to grow. Soon, I won\u2019t even need to do anything. It will just be The Blobby Green Thing. God Bless The Blob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all, it\u2019s not like airport lines will get any longer if I don\u2019t finish reading Old Man Goriot by Tuesday. It\u2019s not like gas prices will continue to climb if I don\u2019t go to my collaborative learning session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2090,"featured_media":7635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/2090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7636,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/7636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}