{"id":8722,"date":"2005-08-29T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T17:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/29\/ch-ch-ch-changes-4.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:17:53","slug":"ch_ch_ch_change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/29\/ch_ch_ch_change-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Ch-ch-ch-changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beloit College is known for many things, but most of all for its class mind-set listing, updated each year, to give some context to what this year&#8217;s freshmen have grown up with (or not grown up with).  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