{"id":186359,"date":"2014-02-19T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/19\/i-am-a-whore-not-a-slut-act-accordingly\/"},"modified":"2014-02-19T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:59:00","slug":"i-am-a-whore-not-a-slut-act-accordingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/19\/i-am-a-whore-not-a-slut-act-accordingly\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am a Whore, Not a Slut, Act Accordingly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/because-it-is-too-expensive-and-side.html\">post about the abuse of the IP process and price gouging for a potential HIV prophylaxis treatment<\/a>, I got an email from a PR person with a link to a promotional graphic for the product, and a request that I post it.<\/p>\n<p>No offer of payment.<\/p>\n<p>Not even an offer of swag.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that my readership numbers probably don&#8217;t rate a T-shirt, but I wasn&#8217;t even offered a f%$#ing key fob.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if you are not going to read my article, and know that I condemned what your employers are doing, at least have the decency of offering some form of remuneration.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a matter of pride.<\/p>\n<p>To quote fellow engineer Montgomery Scott, &#8220;This was a matter of pride.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I wrote a post about the abuse of the IP process and price gouging for a potential HIV prophylaxis treatment, I got an email from a PR person with a link to a promotional graphic for the product, and a request that I post it. No offer of payment. Not even an offer of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125,1158,1074,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-aggravation","category-medical","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186359"}],"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=186359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}