{"id":388,"date":"2007-05-25T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2007-05-25T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T11:46:13","slug":"our-problems-are-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Our problems are solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who thought it could be <a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/25\/opinion\/25brooks.html\">so easy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>In fact, if you really wanted to supercharge the nation, you\u2019d fill it with college students who constantly attend church, but who are skeptical of everything they hear there. For there are at least two things we know about flourishing in a modern society.<\/p>\n<p>>First, college students who attend religious services regularly do better than those that don\u2019t. As Margarita Mooney, a Princeton sociologist, has demonstrated in her research, they work harder and are more engaged with campus life. Second, students who come from denominations that encourage dissent are more successful, on average, than students from denominations that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be quicker if we all became <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=327\">Jesuits<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who thought it could be so easy: >In fact, if you really wanted to supercharge the nation, you\u2019d fill it with college students who constantly attend church, but who are skeptical of everything they hear there. For there are at least two things we know about flourishing in a modern society. >First, college students who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our problems are solved<\/span> <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":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooks","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}