{"id":9769,"date":"2011-09-14T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9769"},"modified":"2011-09-14T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T08:00:52","slug":"who-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9769","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2011\/09\/what-people-dont-get-about-my-job-from-a-rmy-soldier-to-z-ookeeper\/244231\/?single_page=true\">What People Don&#8217;t Get About My Job: From A(rmy Soldier) to Z(ookeeper)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am an engineer. Most people are scientifically and mathematically illiterate. Consequently, most people cannot fathom how much pleasure and delight I derive from my work. Of course I am also lucky to have a great job with great coworkers. But the pleasure of analyzing, say, the overall efficiency of a combined heat and power facility is hard to describe.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is partially true.  My wife actually gets irritated that I never mind going to work.  She does not feel exactly the same about her job.<\/p>\n<p>I also wish children could understand how much fun I have. Because we need more engineers in this country for sure if we hope to remain globally competitive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That goes for scientist, too, as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What People Don&#8217;t Get About My Job: From A(rmy Soldier) to Z(ookeeper) I am an engineer. Most people are scientifically and mathematically illiterate. Consequently, most people cannot fathom how much pleasure and delight I derive from my work. Of course &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9769\">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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769","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=9769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}