{"id":23476,"date":"2023-09-11T08:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=23476"},"modified":"2023-09-18T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:30:00","slug":"the-group-i-wanted-to-join-this-year-rejected-me-and-picked-someone-else-that-they-were-already-friends-with-that-doesnt-deserve-the-spot-nepotism-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/09\/11\/the-group-i-wanted-to-join-this-year-rejected-me-and-picked-someone-else-that-they-were-already-friends-with-that-doesnt-deserve-the-spot-nepotism-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"The group I wanted to join this year rejected me and picked someone else that they were already friends with that doesn&#8217;t deserve the spot. Nepotism sucks :("},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09112023-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09112023-04.jpg\" alt=\"The group I wanted to join this year rejected me and picked someone else that they were already friends with that doesn't deserve the spot. Nepotism sucks :(\" class=\"wp-image-23475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09112023-04.jpg 292w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09112023-04-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The group I wanted to join this year rejected me and picked someone else that they were already friends with that doesn&#8217;t deserve the spot. Nepotism sucks \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it totally does. And the pretense that everything&#8217;s a meritocracy kinda makes it worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AW09142023-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AW09142023-4-1-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"real\" class=\"wp-image-23571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AW09142023-4-1-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AW09142023-4-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AW09142023-4-1-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/AW09142023-4-1.jpg 1405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">real<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it totally does. And the pretense that everything&#8217;s a meritocracy kinda makes it worse. Sadly, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23579,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions\/23579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}