{"id":12330,"date":"2012-09-07T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12330"},"modified":"2012-09-07T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:00:13","slug":"the-seemingly-eternal-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12330","title":{"rendered":"The (Seemingly) Eternal Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2012\/08\/what_is_the_value_of_a_science_phd_is_graduate_school_worth_the_effort_.single.html\">Is a Science Ph.D. a Waste of Time?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Refreshing to read a piece on this subject that doesn&#8217;t simply assume that a non-academic career equates to failure, and acknowledges that one might pursue an advanced degree for reasons other than a fatter paycheck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a Science Ph.D. a Waste of Time? Refreshing to read a piece on this subject that doesn&#8217;t simply assume that a non-academic career equates to failure, and acknowledges that one might pursue an advanced degree for reasons other than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}