{"id":59,"date":"2014-06-04T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T22:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2024-05-10T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T23:06:08","slug":"test-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/04\/test-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To Y.J.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was, arguably, the singular test question<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most repeated, most plagiarized, most modified<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my classroom history:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>A train sets out from Town A to Town B at an average speed&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advancing with me from grade to grade,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It evolved with every station on my journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By high school, it was utterly transformed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Total passenger weight&#8230;engine power&#8230;wind velocity&#8230;track friction&#8230;gravitation&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not realize that I, too, was on a train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nor that it was a trick question \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A communal secret, a joke shared by all my teachers, now deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I imagine them laughing together, skeletal,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marking my answer wrong in the Teacher\u2019s Lounge of the Afterworld,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their angelic fingers caked with the chalk dust of eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>What time does the train arrive&#8230;?\u201d<\/em> It never does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Town B, it will be a different train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wheels, cars, conductor, engineer, passengers \u2013 all will have grown, aged, changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will barely resemble their Town A counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still on the train. I am the train. And the question is not<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>What time will I arrive?\u201d <\/em>or <em>\u201cHow far will I have traveled?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Who will I be at the end of my journey?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Y.J. It was, arguably, the singular test question Most repeated, most plagiarized, most modified In my classroom history: \u201cA train sets out from Town A to Town B at an average speed&#8230;.\u201d Advancing with me from grade to grade, It evolved with every station on my journey. By high school, it was utterly transformed: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/04\/test-question\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Test Question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avijacobson.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}