{"id":61864,"date":"2014-04-24T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=61864"},"modified":"2014-04-24T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:21:39","slug":"why-many-bahamians-dont-pledge-to-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/04\/why-many-bahamians-dont-pledge-to-excel","title":{"rendered":"The Reason Many Bahamians Don&#8217;t &#8216;Pledge to Excel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30798 alignleft\" alt=\"sharon-turner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sharon-turner.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sharon-turner.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sharon-turner-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The reason many Bahamians don&#8217;t strive to excel is that our culture systemically praises and rewards mediocrity and ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Excellence, enlightenment, ingenuity and intellectualism are not esteemed in our culture, mostly because our self-image is so warped that we see those things as too lofty for us to aspire to and possess.<\/p>\n<p>As such, we crush our brightest hopes while celebrating the mindsets and practices that keep us stuck &#8211; and we wonder why things aren&#8217;t getting any better.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Turner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason many Bahamians don&#8217;t strive to excel is that our culture systemically praises and rewards mediocrity and ignorance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":30798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}