{"id":15690,"date":"2015-02-05T03:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T08:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15690"},"modified":"2015-02-05T03:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T08:31:46","slug":"its-always-harder-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15690","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Always Harder than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/contemplativemammoth.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/03\/an-open-letter-to-gov-scott-walker-stop-perpetuating-the-myth-of-the-lazy-professor\/\">An open letter to Gov. Scott Walker: stop perpetuating the myth of the lazy professor<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you say we should work harder, I hear two things: 1) we aren\u2019t working hard, and 2) we don\u2019t think we have to. Professors seem like an easy target. We have good job security, we\u2019re paid well, we often come from privileged backgrounds. We appear to have little to do but teach a class for a few hours a week, and we have extended vacations. It\u2019s easy to see us as cloistered in the Ivory Tower, without much experience with the \u201creal world\u201d and the concerns of average folks.<\/p>\n<p>The picture I\u2019ve painted for you is incomplete, though.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter to Gov. Scott Walker: stop perpetuating the myth of the lazy professor When you say we should work harder, I hear two things: 1) we aren\u2019t working hard, and 2) we don\u2019t think we have to. Professors &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690","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=15690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}