{"id":3340,"date":"2010-10-28T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2010-10-28T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:57:06","slug":"so-you-want-to-get-a-phd-in-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/site_media\/players\/jwplayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\"value=\"height=390&#038;width=480&#038;file=http:\/\/newvideos.xtranormal.com\/web_final_lo\/e6fa957c-de5b-11df-a339-003048d6740d_13_web_final_lo_web_finallo-flv.flv&#038;image=http:\/\/newvideos.xtranormal.com\/web_final_lo\/e6fa957c-de5b-11df-a339-003048d6740d_13_web_final_lo_poster.jpg&#038;link=http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/watch\/7451115&#038;searchbar=false&#038;autostart=false\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/site_media\/players\/jwplayer.swf\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"height=390&#038;width=480&#038;file=http:\/\/newvideos.xtranormal.com\/web_final_lo\/e6fa957c-de5b-11df-a339-003048d6740d_13_web_final_lo_web_finallo-flv.flv&#038;image=http:\/\/newvideos.xtranormal.com\/web_final_lo\/e6fa957c-de5b-11df-a339-003048d6740d_13_web_final_lo_poster.jpg&#038;link=http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/watch\/7451115&#038;searchbar=false&#038;autostart=false\"><\/embed><\/object><object width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/site_media\/players\/embedded-xnl-stats.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/site_media\/players\/embedded-xnl-stats.swf\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Colette I came across a pointed xtranormal animation titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/watch\/7451115\/?ref=nf\">So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities<\/a>. The animation is of a dialogue between a student who wants a letter of reference to graduate school and a burnt out prof. The students is idealistic and insists on going for a PhD in order to be a college professor. The professor is trying to dissuade her. The dialogue seems well written, though the automatic voices sometimes miss the timing needed to get the barbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Colette I came across a pointed xtranormal animation titled, So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities. The animation is of a dialogue between a student who wants a letter of reference to graduate school and a burnt out prof. The students is idealistic and insists on going for a PhD &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}