{"id":4728,"date":"2010-05-31T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/31\/irritating-poll-stuck-at-work\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:22:02","slug":"irritating-poll-stuck-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/31\/irritating-poll-stuck-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Irritating Poll: Stuck at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Memorial Day in the US, which is a holiday to honor the dead of our various wars. It&#8217;s also the traditional start of summer-type activities, and most people spend it at cookouts and parades and that sort of thing. I say &#8220;most people,&#8221; because our trimester calendar means that we&#8217;re still in session, and today is a class day like any other, except most of the administrative staff are taking the day off.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of this, a poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3280339.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3280339\/\">Which of the following holidays is most annoying to have to spend at work?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online survey<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The serious options in the poll are all official holidays that are honored by the federal government and many public schools, but not by the institutions of higher education that I&#8217;ve been associated with in my career. Not that I&#8217;m bitter about that, or anything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Memorial Day in the US, which is a holiday to honor the dead of our various wars. It&#8217;s also the traditional start of summer-type activities, and most people spend it at cookouts and parades and that sort of thing. I say &#8220;most people,&#8221; because our trimester calendar means that we&#8217;re still in session,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/31\/irritating-poll-stuck-at-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irritating Poll: Stuck at Work<\/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":[8,137,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-polls","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","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=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}