{"id":294,"date":"2013-02-02T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/~sfrey\/wordpress\/?p=294"},"modified":"2014-07-19T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:55:07","slug":"postdoc-ergo-propter-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/294","title":{"rendered":"Postdoc ergo propter doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People imagine that experts know lots of things.  I mean, it&#8217;s true, but that&#8217;s like saying the ocean is full of sand.  The ocean, as full of sand as it is, is more full of questions.  <\/p>\n<p>I think we all miss the point of expertise a little, but experts are the farthest off.  I&#8217;m on the path to becoming an expert myself.  When it happens, I&#8217;ll do my part to disappoint the people who expect answers.  I&#8217;d sooner disappoint them than not.  I think the cleanest pursuit of science is the pursuit of feeling small.  Maybe it sounds depressing to have only this defiantly inadequate expertise, but it beats the alternative.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People imagine that experts know lots of things. I mean, it&#8217;s true, but that&#8217;s like saying the ocean is full of sand. The ocean, as full of sand as it is, is more full of questions. I think we all miss the point of expertise a little, but experts are the farthest off. I&#8217;m on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Postdoc ergo propter doc<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}