{"id":5448,"date":"2011-03-11T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/11\/links-for-2011-03-11\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:05:15","slug":"links-for-2011-03-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/11\/links-for-2011-03-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-03-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2011\/culture\/among-assisterati-bottoms-highbrow-bottom-feeders\">Among the Assisterati: Bottoms Up with the Highbrow Bottom Feeders | The New York Observer<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;For six weeks, at a cost of $7,000, Columbia University offers recent college graduates forgettable workshops, fleeting encounters with important editors and access to the best unlisted job openings in book publishing and magazines. After swift job placement, these hyper-literate 20-somethings occupy a peculiar professional class: the Assisterati. Their institutional affiliations lend them a sense that they are the caretakers, soon to be inheritors, of a sublime patrimony. Their proximity to literary creation&#8211;via email, telephone or fax&#8211;suggests they possess a cultural credibility they couldn&#8217;t acquire in, say, Chicago, or on Wall Street. Underpaid but brimming with hope, they, like the people they assist, will one day run this town and steer the course of American literature. That is, if they stick around with their egos intact.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the Assisterati: Bottoms Up with the Highbrow Bottom Feeders | The New York Observer &#8220;For six weeks, at a cost of $7,000, Columbia University offers recent college graduates forgettable workshops, fleeting encounters with important editors and access to the best unlisted job openings in book publishing and magazines. After swift job placement, these hyper-literate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/11\/links-for-2011-03-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-03-11<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448","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=5448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}