{"id":5312,"date":"2011-01-03T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/03\/academic-poll-synchronization\/"},"modified":"2011-01-03T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T11:48:08","slug":"academic-poll-synchronization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/03\/academic-poll-synchronization\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Poll: Synchronization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clock in my classroom for this term appears to be set five minutes slow. Which is an improvement over the one in the hall that&#8217;s ten minutes slow, but kind of plays hell with starting and ending class on time. It is, however, a great excuse for a poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4330816.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/4330816\/\">Clocks in academic buildings should be set:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">survey software<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Combine the odd clock settings with our daft class schedule (to make our ten-week terms nominally equivalent to standard semester classes, we teach in 65-minute blocks instead of the more typical 50-minute blocks. This means that classes start and end at odd times, which I&#8217;ve never entirely gotten used to.), and it&#8217;s looking like a disorienting term&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clock in my classroom for this term appears to be set five minutes slow. Which is an improvement over the one in the hall that&#8217;s ten minutes slow, but kind of plays hell with starting and ending class on time. It is, however, a great excuse for a poll: Clocks in academic buildings should&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/03\/academic-poll-synchronization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic Poll: Synchronization<\/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":[8,13,7,137,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-physics","category-polls","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}