{"id":1457,"date":"2008-10-27T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2008-10-27T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:05:09","slug":"conference-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Conference post-mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes made while the caffeine is infusing into the bloodstream:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A well-loaded MP3 player can make a 5-hour drive <em>better<\/em>, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that my body likes me any more afterwards.\n<li>Watching your team lose with your son after the second such 5-hour drive in a weekend? I suppose I earned beaucoup parent points, but see item above re: caffeine.\n<li>Dodgy e-mail spam filter makes for a fun morning, I can see. On behalf of everyone trying to respond to their inbox, I hope you will accept my deepest and most profound regrets for the resulting delay that <em>you<\/em> are not responsible for.\n<li>Outside downtown Los Angeles, downtown Miami has to be the least-walkable convention area I&#8217;ve visited.\n<li>You know you&#8217;re at an academic conference with social historians when you look out the window, idly comment on the irrationality of all that money going into a waterfront that will be wiped out by a hurricane and is essentially a playground for people with spare income, and then someone opens up his MacAir and shows me and another colleague an aerial photograph with a superimposed map of Miami&#8217;s downtown, showing where neighborhoods were destroyed to build up the playground.\n<li>A discussant probably earns service brownie points when a paper author says, &#8220;Okay, that set of comments justified my airfare.&#8221;\n<li>I&#8217;m fairly sure I still don&#8217;t understand Andy Abbott&#8217;s presentation on &#8220;the thick present,&#8221; but maybe I&#8217;ll understand it better after I see it in print and with a vodka in hand, and I have to admit it&#8217;s a great phrase.\n<li>On the other hand, maybe it&#8217;s because most historians are lousy at theory (Andy&#8217;s a sociologist). But we&#8217;re good users of theory.\n<li>I still want a time machine, and you want me to have one, too.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes made while the caffeine is infusing into the bloodstream: A well-loaded MP3 player can make a 5-hour drive better, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that my body likes me any more afterwards. Watching your team lose with your son after the second such 5-hour drive in a weekend? I suppose I earned beaucoup parent points, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-academic-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-nv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}