{"id":183458,"date":"2013-02-23T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/23\/academe-would-be-so-much-better-if-this-were-true\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T02:45:00","slug":"academe-would-be-so-much-better-if-this-were-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/23\/academe-would-be-so-much-better-if-this-were-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Academe Would Be So Much Better if This Were True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense\">FAQ: The \u201cSnake Fight\u201d Portion Of Your Thesis Defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>Q<\/b>: What does it mean if I get a small snake that is also very strong?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>A<\/b>: Snake-picking is not an exact science. The size of the snake is the main factor. The snake may be very strong, or it may be very weak. It may be of Asian, African, or South American origin. It may constrict its victims and then swallow them whole, or it may use venom to blind and\/or paralyze its prey. You shouldn\u2019t read too much into these other characteristics. Although if you get a poisonous snake, it often means that there was a problem with the formatting of your bibliography.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/duly-noted\/entry\/13494\/a_guide_to_the_snake_fight_portion_of_your_phd_dissertation\">Lindsay Beyerstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAQ: The \u201cSnake Fight\u201d Portion Of Your Thesis Defense A sample: Q: What does it mean if I get a small snake that is also very strong?A: Snake-picking is not an exact science. The size of the snake is the main factor. The snake may be very strong, or it may be very weak. It &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,1002,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-good-writing","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}