{"id":191,"date":"2012-05-25T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=191"},"modified":"2012-05-25T08:31:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:31:39","slug":"commencement-advice-from-the-stars-the-2012-reliable-source-celebrity-graduation-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/25\/commencement-advice-from-the-stars-the-2012-reliable-source-celebrity-graduation-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement advice from the stars: The 2012 Reliable Source celebrity graduation speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s graduation season, which means commencement speakers trying so hard to be funny and memorable \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and usually failing. (Remember your college grad address? Thought not.) Colleges fight for VIP speakers because they make headlines with their Life Lessons. And so we present the The Reliable Source\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual, all-purpose keynote address (with input from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/campus-overload\/post\/a-universal-commencement-speech-for-every-single-class-of-2012\/2012\/05\/24\/gJQA4FzsmU_blog.html?hpid=z4\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/campus-overload\/post\/a-universal-commencement-speech-for-every-single-class-of-2012\/2012\/05\/24\/gJQA4FzsmU_blog.html\">our colleague Jenna Johnson<\/a>) stitched together from the best lines of Commencement 2012.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/reliable-source\/post\/commencement-advice-from-the-stars-the-2012-reliable-source-celebrity-graduation-speech\/2012\/05\/24\/gJQASXZCoU_blog.html?wprss=rss_style\">Read full article  &gt;&gt;<\/a><br style=\"clear:both\"><br style=\"clear:both\"><a style=\"font-size:10px;color:maroon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:90fa2d7c9777d0cdffb692c8b8b9a128:JnCAXdTZMJpGHCZ9XAFojgYM7bX85IIAvsBpFOxfwkWmdadVi8JU77gJr2E2Ci1iMJxWlRv7QGuIgrA%3D\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" title=\"Add to Facebook\" alt=\"Add to Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/facebook.gif?w=525\"><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style=\"font-size:10px;color:maroon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:5c5ccf96450d385cfc7cfe12ce09bed5:r3UC%2FNXmaoKnQxUKbRlsM8nausTXnImFnHptRk4p%2FzPS0O4uCcqivoCFqNkSDTh94TmmVXFh1XyR5N0%3D\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" title=\"Add to Twitter\" alt=\"Add to Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/twitter.png?w=525\"><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style=\"font-size:10px;color:maroon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:11612967e9af38bdef51b1dfbfe1793a:mev6L4WO1f3TLsIx%2B5y4KcmoTU6K24w15NRPC7NZCpgYdUYyfvMOhOdkUNmtYL0fhBLFqaFuea2oUg%3D%3D\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" title=\"Add to Reddit\" alt=\"Add to Reddit\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/reddit.png?w=525\"><\/a><br \/>\n  <a style=\"font-size:10px;color:maroon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:33d0e8577424e1b6fe5d424ea025cc95:kOwA036KxikNDHlM%2FirA7Ug31bjwogCW%2F6u%2BZN7KEa17OsMBSFCiE6CjSjbE161%2Fh6K6hXuilbLd0Jw%3D\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" title=\"Add to StumbleUpon\" alt=\"Add to StumbleUpon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.pheedo.com\/images\/mm\/stumbleit.gif?w=525\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=8c62849a46bee61f2b0aec2acd4df8af&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=8c62849a46bee61f2b0aec2acd4df8af&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:n1cy22q&amp;adv=wouzn4v&amp;fmt=3\"><\/p>\n<p>via Style: Culture, Arts, Ideas &amp; More &#8211; The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo\">http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s graduation season, which means commencement speakers trying so hard to be funny and memorable \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and usually failing. (Remember your college grad address? Thought not.) Colleges fight for VIP speakers because they make headlines with their Life Lessons. And so we present the The Reliable Source\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual, all-purpose keynote address (with input from our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/25\/commencement-advice-from-the-stars-the-2012-reliable-source-celebrity-graduation-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commencement advice from the stars: The 2012 Reliable Source celebrity graduation speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google-reader","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-35","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}