{"id":2190,"date":"2008-01-17T08:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T08:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/17\/increasing-the-confusion-level\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T08:50:55","slug":"increasing-the-confusion-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/17\/increasing-the-confusion-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing the Confusion Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in a bit of a funk this week, for reasons that don&#8217;t bear talking about, and everything in blogdom has seemed indescribably tedious: the same boring people having the same stupid arguments over and over, with no end in sight. And don&#8217;t get me started on politics.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to shake myself out of this, I&#8217;ve been poking around with Technorati, and stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/arjendu.wordpress.com\/\">Confused at a Higher Level<\/a>, a blog by a physics professor at Carleton. It&#8217;s familiar material to me&#8211; he even started there the same year I started here&#8211; but he&#8217;s got some good thoughts on physics, teaching, and academia.<\/p>\n<p>Go take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in a bit of a funk this week, for reasons that don&#8217;t bear talking about, and everything in blogdom has seemed indescribably tedious: the same boring people having the same stupid arguments over and over, with no end in sight. And don&#8217;t get me started on politics. In an effort to shake myself&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/17\/increasing-the-confusion-level\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Increasing the Confusion Level<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","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=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}