{"id":5676,"date":"2011-06-21T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/21\/ill-take-hobbies-less-acceptab\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T07:59:09","slug":"ill-take-hobbies-less-acceptab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/21\/ill-take-hobbies-less-acceptab\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Take “Hobbies Less Acceptable Than Blogging” for $1000, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Inside Higher Ed<\/a>, a professor in New Jersey took the whole social media thing to the next level<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A Fairleigh Dickinson University physics professor is in custody for allegedly running a prostitution website involving about 200 women and more than 1,200 johns, police said Monday.<\/p>\n

David Flory of New York City, who teaches on the FDU-Metropolitan campus in Teaneck, was arrested Sunday while sitting in a Starbucks in Albuquerque, N.M., said Lt. William Roseman of the Albuquerque police. Flory, who ran the site mostly from New York, owned a vacation home in Santa Fe, N.M., Roseman said.<\/p>\n

Flory was charged with 40 counts of promoting prostitution and other charges. He was being held in Albuquerque on $100,000 bail late Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I suppose it makes a certain kind of sense. After all, the World Wide Web was invented by physicists at CERN, and physicists pioneered open-access online publishing with the arxiv…<\/p>\n

Of course, Flory didn’t have all the details down:<\/p>\n

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Flory told police he did not make money off of the website and instead saw it as a hobby<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prostitution: You’re doing it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Inside Higher Ed, a professor in New Jersey took the whole social media thing to the next level: A Fairleigh Dickinson University physics professor is in custody for allegedly running a prostitution website involving about 200 women and more than 1,200 johns, police said Monday. David Flory of New York City, who teaches on… Continue reading I’ll Take “Hobbies Less Acceptable Than Blogging” for $1000, Alex<\/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":[8,39,7,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-news","category-physics","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","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=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}