{"id":2582,"date":"2014-05-17T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2014-05-17T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T23:24:19","slug":"whats-in-a-gift-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2014\/05\/17\/whats-in-a-gift-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Gift Horse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two quite distinct sources in my news and info feed coincidentally raised the issue of looking askance at philanthropy at the same time this week. <\/p>\n<p>\nOn May 11 Nassif Ghoussoub&#8217;s &#8216;Piece of Mind&#8217; <a href='http:\/\/nghoussoub.com\/2014\/05\/11\/on-the-dark-side-of-philanthropy\/'>on the dark side of philanthropy<\/a> addresses the issue of possible undue influence by donors on research directions in the higher academic world, and one day later Benjamin Soskis at &#8216;The Atlantic&#8217; writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-case-for-philanthropy-criticism\/361951\/\">the importance of criticizing philanthropy<\/a> in the context of K-12 education &#8220;reform&#8221;.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quite distinct sources in my news and info feed coincidentally raised the issue of looking askance at philanthropy at the same time this week. On May 11 Nassif Ghoussoub&#8217;s &#8216;Piece of Mind&#8217; on the dark side of philanthropy addresses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2014\/05\/17\/whats-in-a-gift-horse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}