{"id":10042,"date":"2004-01-10T02:29:12","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10042"},"modified":"2006-11-18T13:31:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T18:31:32","slug":"space-oddity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/10\/space-oddity\/","title":{"rendered":"Space oddity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner with the professor and the wife Friday was fantastic. She had some good ideas about the screnplay though, we didn&#8217;t discuss it much. The wife and the professor connect in a positive way and it&#8217;s obvious that each is interested in the opinion of the other. It&#8217;s always nice when they people you respect, respect each other. Of course, I respect and admire the professor too. Not to put words in their mouth, but I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and speculate that the professor thinks what I&#8217;m doing with the book is a little crazy because the odds are long. But I think the odds of becoming a tenured professor at a major university are longer. They have to publish to get that far anyway, plus teach a full course load and that&#8217;s just what I know about. I&#8217;m sure there are other endless requirements to get tenure. All that sounds a lot harder than what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, I don&#8217;t think about the odds. The odds aren&#8217;t in my control. Sometimes, you just gotta believe anyway. No matter what, you gotta believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner with the professor and the wife Friday was fantastic. She had some good ideas about the screnplay though, we didn&#8217;t discuss it much. The wife and the professor connect in a positive way and it&#8217;s obvious that each is interested in the opinion of the other. It&#8217;s always nice when they people you respect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}