{"id":669,"date":"2007-04-17T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/17\/what-a-buzz-kill\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:13:29","slug":"what-a-buzz-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"What a Buzz Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thesis passed, but apparently with a little reluctance:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my pleasure to inform you that we have passed your thesis.<br \/>\nCongratulations. I am happy to see your writing improve; however, I do want to note that the committee still has some serious reservations about the depth and breadth of your research and analysis &#8212; both of which will need more work if you plan to continue in the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do plan on continuing in this field! Does this mean I won&#8217;t be able to ask for letters of recommendation? sigh. Being good at stuff just doesn&#8217;t come as easily as it did when I was young. I have to work so darn hard at everything these days. Although, I think that being any kind of writer might always be hard.<\/p>\n<p>Bella and I celebrated by going out for sushi (which in Yucca Valley, might be considered a risky affair &#8211; but still beat out Pizza Hut).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thesis passed, but apparently with a little reluctance: &#8220;It is my pleasure to inform you that we have passed your thesis. Congratulations. I am happy to see your writing improve; however, I do want to note that the committee &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=669\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}