{"id":6440,"date":"2019-11-12T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities-draft\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2021-10-19T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T00:14:23","slug":"the-worlds-top-economists-just-made-the-case-for-why-we-still-need-english-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/the-worlds-top-economists-just-made-the-case-for-why-we-still-need-english-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need More Storytellers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Economics Correspondent for <em>The Washington Post<\/em>,&nbsp;<a class=\"author-name-link link-hover-underline\" style=\"font-size: 20px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/heather-long\/?utm_term=.873551ebb5ec\"><span class=\"author-name font-bold link blue hover-blue-hover\">Heather Long<\/span><\/a> explains how humanities majors have slumped to their lowest level in decades. Despite the overwhelming shift toward STEM majors, Long makes the case for why we still need English majors. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2019\/10\/19\/worlds-top-economists-just-made-case-why-we-still-need-english-majors\/?fbclid=IwAR2GpfPzYVo0659xYLMG4jrT2xwmp94OKuj_DnZRok7NYqolt1FP5RDqA6c\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heather Long<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[168,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-humanitiesnews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9884,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/9884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}