{"id":5539,"date":"2011-04-27T13:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/27\/academic-poll-humans-vs-zombie\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:41:55","slug":"academic-poll-humans-vs-zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/27\/academic-poll-humans-vs-zombie\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Poll: Humans vs. Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union&#8217;s edition of the chase-each-other-with-Nerf-guns game <a href=\"http:\/\/humansvszombies.org\/\">Humans vs. Zombies<\/a> kicks off next week, and has prompted some discussion of whether this is just a harmless way of blowing off steam, or an existential threat to the core mission of academia. While some of this has been vaguely entertaining, it ignores the <em>really<\/em> important question:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4979738.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/4979738\/\">Who would win:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking classical movie-type zombies, here, not <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/entertainment\/comedy\/91156658_zombie-cat.htm\">Schr&ouml;dinger cats<\/a> that are alive and dead at the same time, so you can only choose one answer at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union&#8217;s edition of the chase-each-other-with-Nerf-guns game Humans vs. Zombies kicks off next week, and has prompted some discussion of whether this is just a harmless way of blowing off steam, or an existential threat to the core mission of academia. While some of this has been vaguely entertaining, it ignores the really important question: Who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/27\/academic-poll-humans-vs-zombie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic Poll: Humans vs. Zombies<\/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-5539","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\/5539","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=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}