{"id":1943,"date":"2011-02-09T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:17:57","slug":"phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The fun of social networking is the sharing.\u00a0 Reading another person&#8217;s favorite comic or blog or show or song and making it one of your favorites also.\u00a0 Even more fun when you make a new friend and they (or realize an old friend)\u00a0 also enjoy one of your favorites.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Recently I stumbled upon a little comic strip called\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=8\">PhD<\/a>.\u00a0 One of my Facebook friends posted it on her wall and I giggled as I read it.\u00a0 I instantly re-posted it on my wall because I have about 5 friends in teaching and several pursuing PhD&#8217;s.\u00a0 A road I do not envy them on and frankly the concept is baffling to me!\u00a0 But hey, it you love it and it takes you to the goals you want go for it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>This sums up my reasoning.. lol.. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=3\">Grad school<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>These little snippets are from the beginning.\u00a0 Because I&#8217;m OCD about\u00a0 following a &#8220;plot line&#8221; from the beginning even in a comic strip.\u00a0 Perhaps its the human nature study I enjoy, but when testing out a new blog or comic, I&#8217;ll always start at the beginning. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>But, I&#8217;m a fast reader!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fun of social networking is the sharing.\u00a0 Reading another person&#8217;s favorite comic or blog or show or song and making it one of your favorites also.\u00a0 Even more fun when you make a new friend and they (or realize &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}