{"id":1928,"date":"2026-05-31T20:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:32:30","slug":"dorm-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Dorm\u00a0Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure data-spectra-id=\"spectra-mpun1tdg-5zdbfy\" class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/is1-ssl.mzstatic.com\/image\/thumb\/Podcasts211\/v4\/e3\/05\/bb\/e305bbe9-8d39-cd49-cbd5-a09ebf703ba7\/mza_7704254434134000656.jpg\/1200x1200bf.webp\" alt=\"Rich Berry Episode 4 Part 2\" title=\"Dorm\u00a0Disorder\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Boarding School After Dark Really Looks Like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Television has been getting the boarding school story wrong for fifty years. I know because I lived in one for ten. Here is what those scripts are missing \u2014 and why it matters who tells the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Girard College, Philadelphia \u2014 Lights out, 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten seconds after the houseparent&#8217;s footsteps faded down the hall, it began. A whisper first. Then a laugh badly swallowed. Then the sound of someone&#8217;s sneaker hitting the floor and the whole dormitory coming alive in the dark \u2014 thirty kids who weren&#8217;t supposed to be awake, weren&#8217;t supposed to be talking, weren&#8217;t supposed to be anything but asleep. This was Dorm Disorder. This was every night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read all about it on my Substack: https:\/\/erikasellispr.substack.com\/p\/dorm-disorder-what-boarding-school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Boarding School After Dark Really Looks Like Television has been getting the boarding school story wrong for fifty years. I know because I lived in one for ten. Here is what those scripts are missing \u2014 and why it matters who tells the story. Girard College, Philadelphia \u2014 Lights out, 1987 Ten seconds after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-talk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ecreatesinfo@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What Boarding School After Dark Really Looks Like Television has been getting the boarding school story wrong for fifty years. I know because I lived in one for ten. Here is what those scripts are missing \u2014 and why it matters who tells the story. Girard College, Philadelphia \u2014 Lights out, 1987 Ten seconds after&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecreates.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}