{"id":1178,"date":"2011-06-27T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2011-06-27T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:14:20","slug":"interview-with-stephen-esposito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/06\/27\/interview-with-stephen-esposito\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Stephen Esposito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/features\/2011-5-5-Esposito.htm\">this interview with Prof. Esposito<\/a>, when it was posted last month following its publication in the Core Journal? Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment1179\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-5-5-Esposito.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1179\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1179 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-5-5-Esposito-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"2011-5-5-Esposito\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-5-5-Esposito-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-5-5-Esposito.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment1179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Prof. Stephen Esposito by Hannah Franke, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>How do you think the addition of Ajax has been beneficial for CC101?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a tender matter to bring up suicide to eighteen-year-olds because they\u2019re on the cusp of a whole new world, in the tender rite of passage from girls to women, boys to men. I think it\u2019s a bold and brave move on the part of the Core to present to eighteen-year-olds a play that is somewhat frightening, but, for all its sadness, so illuminating and uplifting. We could pretend the students at Boston University don\u2019t think about suicide, but we\u2019d be fooling ourselves. There\u2019s a way in which we, the Core faculty, by asking our students to read this play, are doing the same thing that the <a href=\"http:\/\/radioboston.wbur.org\/2011\/02\/15\/ajax\">Theatre of War<\/a> people are doing for the U.S. military; after all, many of those soldiers are only eighteen years old. So we\u2019re creating a forum for our young people to talk openly and honestly about a difficult issue. And that is what education is all about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire interview, conducted by Hannah Franke, over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/features\/\">at the Core Features page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see this interview with Prof. Esposito, when it was posted last month following its publication in the Core Journal? Here&#8217;s an excerpt: How do you think the addition of Ajax has been beneficial for CC101? It\u2019s a tender matter to bring up suicide to eighteen-year-olds because they\u2019re on the cusp of a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3857,3856,3051],"tags":[48738,4347,3690],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}