{"id":138925,"date":"2026-08-16T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/16\/college-should-be-tough-michigans-grade-plan-coddles-students-opinion-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:01:00","slug":"college-should-be-tough-michigans-grade-plan-coddles-students-opinion-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/16\/college-should-be-tough-michigans-grade-plan-coddles-students-opinion-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"College should be tough. Michigan&#8217;s grade plan coddles students. | Opinion &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiugFBVV95cUxPRVNBMTdWQXZYUDhPbUxvX0k5MThLVjlHTTJOZEI2XzBNOVZwcGJwVXJlTjhENUh1TVVBOURQc01IMVV1dXJ2SVFVWXNqZldENlJxd0xKYmpzZk1HbU5GbkVvZWJ1ZERfenVoY3VEMUJNNUIyclZVbDlKdnZySnV0cVFHZ2F6YzVuOGV3azhxMmJ2NGRQTldTQVZhQjNuMG9OZTFEVVpRNlNoZjFoZmhKb1h3SUtjM0NDU2c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">College should be tough. Michigan&#8217;s grade plan coddles students. | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College should be tough. Michigan&#8217;s grade plan coddles students. | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}