{"id":8233,"date":"2013-06-24T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creative.clemson.edu\/clemsonworld\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2023-07-11T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:19:01","slug":"clemson-experience-six-words-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/clemson-experience-six-words-less\/","title":{"rendered":"My Clemson Experience in six words or less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/wordleCU-e1398975926975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5464\" src=\"http:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/wordleCU-e1398975926975.jpg\" alt=\"Six words\" width=\"710\" height=\"983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/wordleCU-e1398975926975.jpg 710w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/wordleCU-e1398975926975-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/06\/wordleCU-e1398975926975-509x705.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a literary legend that Ernest Hemingway once was challenged to write a short story in six words or less and responded with:<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cFor sale: baby shoes, never worn.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>While that was never verified,\u00a0<em>Smith Magazine<\/em>\u00a0popularized the idea of six-word memoirs several years ago, inviting online readers to share their six words on life, happiness and more.<br \/>\nIt seemed a perfect challenge for Clemson alumni, who, from both anecdotal and formal research, are among the most loyal in the country. Start a cadence count almost anywhere and any alum within earshot will pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>So we threw out the question on our\u00a0<em>Clemson World<\/em> Facebook page: \u201cHow would you describe your Clemson experience in six words or less?\u201d We\u2019ll give a little slack to those grads for whom mathematics isn\u2019t a strong point \u2014 some of our six-word memoirs stretched to seven, or eight, or even 18. But it was clear in reading through them that the memories of the education gained and relationships formed have resulted in an incredibly strong Tiger pride.<\/p>\n<p>This is a visual representation of the many responses posted on Facebook. The larger the word, the more times it was used.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, \u201cthermodynamics\u201d really was part of one six-word description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a literary legend that Ernest Hemingway once was challenged to write a short story in six words or less and responded with: \u201cFor sale: baby shoes, never worn.\u201d While that was never verified,\u00a0Smith Magazine\u00a0popularized the idea of six-word memoirs several years ago, inviting online readers to share their six words on life, happiness and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1061,1147,1226,2690,2999],"coauthors":[3481],"class_list":["post-8233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-education","tag-facebook","tag-family","tag-spring-2013","tag-tiger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/slider-2013s-six-words.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}