{"id":407,"date":"2005-11-14T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=407"},"modified":"2005-11-14T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T01:22:17","slug":"do-i-look-like-im-from-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Do I look like I’m from MIT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was at the Central Park hawk bench<\/a>, enjoying a discussion with one of the birding regulars there about Pale Male<\/a>, when she asked me if I taught at MIT. Well, I’ll admit that’s the most unusual question I’ve ever heard from an adult. Occasionally I pretend<\/em> that I’ve heard a rude question for the very first time (I’ve never been asked that by a stranger!<\/em>), to give another person (especially students) a hint that you don’t ask that.
\nBut I really had never been asked if I taught at MIT before. So I explained that I taught at USF, and after a bit more conversation, it turned out that she had probably never heard of USF even though she had lived in Florida for several years, before she had become a birder.
\nIncidentally, New York was great. I’m exhausted, and I didn’t get enough work done, but it was an absolutely wonderful trip. And I’ve been invited to play along with<\/del> coauthor a review article over the next few months. Fun! Challenging. Trying to conceive of fitting that in with everything else. Anyone know a temporal equivalent of a shoehorn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was at the Central Park hawk bench, enjoying a discussion with one of the birding regulars there about Pale Male, when she asked me if I taught at MIT. Well, I’ll admit that’s the most unusual question I’ve ever heard from an adult. Occasionally I pretend that I’ve heard a rude question for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}