{"id":869,"date":"2011-07-22T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2011-07-22T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:07:40","slug":"the-myth-of-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-myth-of-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth of ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Historically, societies have always been divided by myths of difference: between peasants and nobility, slaves and slave owners, or minorities and majorities. Today, the most pervasive and enduring of those myths \u2014 the myth of ability \u2014 is being challenged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-John Mighton (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Myth-Ability-Nurturing-Mathematical-Talent\/dp\/0802777074\" target=\"_blank\">The Myth of Ability<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Historically, societies have always been divided by myths of difference: between peasants and nobility, slaves and slave owners, or minorities and majorities. Today, the most pervasive and enduring of those myths \u2014 the myth of ability \u2014 is being challenged.&#8221; -John Mighton (The Myth of Ability)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}