{"id":17781,"date":"2023-08-20T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=17781"},"modified":"2023-08-20T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T22:16:48","slug":"17781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2023\/08\/17781\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the article: <a href=\"https:\/\/fox59.com\/news\/meet-little-frank-marian-universitys-new-college-guide\/?fbclid=IwAR1TeP9QfIOpwVWroYTJIdXeapCUta3UrHfZIB5v7wepuRCr-ShoDTVZUfM\">Meet \u2018Little Frank\u2019: Marian University\u2019s new college guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Marian University has unveiled \u201cLittle Frank\u201d to help incoming and current students navigate their academic journeys while studying at the private Roman Catholic university.<\/p><p>The muppet was introduced Wednesday afternoon for the very first time to university staff as part of a new initiative to help students and parents alike with understanding financial aid, majors that are on offer and the tools that are available as students set out to achieve their academic goals.<\/p><p>\u201cLittle Frank will appear on the Marian website to highlight helpful tools and resources, such as getting help completing the FAFSA,\u201d read a portion of a Marian University press release sent out Wednesday morning. \u201cHe will appear on campus monitors, informing and encouraging students to get involved or find help to address challenges.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that I am anti-puppet. My father, in part, worked as a puppeteer and so the puppet stage was part of my young life, including building puppets. I also think of Chesterton\u2019s childhood and his own father\u2019s home puppet stage and puppet shows. But to \u201cnavigate academic journeys\u201d?<br><br>So let me be a <em>little frank<\/em>, this is a not a serious idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article: Meet \u2018Little Frank\u2019: Marian University\u2019s new college guide INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Marian University has unveiled \u201cLittle Frank\u201d to help incoming and current students navigate their academic journeys while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}