{"id":1661,"date":"2007-08-16T06:45:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/16\/usvi-love-the-hat\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T06:45:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T06:45:47","slug":"usvi-love-the-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/16\/usvi-love-the-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"USVI: Love the Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One final vacation picture: what with all the snorkeling and boat-chartering and hiking, I was starting to worry that I might seem too cool to be a physicist. There was a chance that I might meet somebody, and not have them realize immediately what I do for a living.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, my Northern European heritage doesn&#8217;t exactly put me in a great position for dealing with intense tropical sun. After a day or two, I noticed that my scalp was strting to sunburn, through my hair. So I needed a hat of some sort.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-e8fe6c1393e9cab1c953663790d0b6ff-sm_dorktastic_hats.jpg\" alt=\"i-e8fe6c1393e9cab1c953663790d0b6ff-sm_dorktastic_hats.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I decided to kill two birds with one stone, and looked long and hard to find a hat that was sufficiently dorktastic to both protect me from the sun, and clearly mark me as a physicist. It wasn&#8217;t easy, but I think I managed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(The picture shows me with my parents at a scenic overlook on the road to Maho Bay and Francis Bay. We stopped on our way back after snorkeling Francis Bay one afternoon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One final vacation picture: what with all the snorkeling and boat-chartering and hiking, I was starting to worry that I might seem too cool to be a physicist. There was a chance that I might meet somebody, and not have them realize immediately what I do for a living. At the same time, my Northern&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/16\/usvi-love-the-hat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USVI: Love the Hat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}