{"id":2999,"date":"2008-10-01T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T09:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/01\/adopted-physicist\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T09:37:50","slug":"adopted-physicist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/01\/adopted-physicist\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted Physicist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adoptaphysicist.org\/\">Adopt-a-Physicist<\/a> program run by the APS, and I&#8217;ve been &#8220;adopted&#8221; by three high school classes. The program pairs professional physicists with high school classes, and provides a web forum both groups can access. The students ask questions, and I answer them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to be able to link directly to the forums, but they&#8217;re password-protected, so you can&#8217;t get in. The questions so far have been really good, though, and I&#8217;m enjoying providing answers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my answers have included pointers to the blog, so I thought I&#8217;d give a shout-out here to the classes that have &#8220;adopted&#8221; me. So, &#8220;hey&#8221; to ABC Public Charter School in DC, Franklin Central School just down I-88 from here, and Manila Science High School in the Philippines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for the Adopt-a-Physicist program run by the APS, and I&#8217;ve been &#8220;adopted&#8221; by three high school classes. The program pairs professional physicists with high school classes, and provides a web forum both groups can access. The students ask questions, and I answer them. I&#8217;d love to be able to link directly to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/01\/adopted-physicist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adopted Physicist<\/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":[8,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","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=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}