{"id":435,"date":"2008-12-23T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/12\/23\/what_i_want_to_do_when_i_grow_up\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T10:24:18","slug":"what_i_want_to_do_when_i_grow_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/12\/23\/what_i_want_to_do_when_i_grow_up\/","title":{"rendered":"What I want to do when I grow up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just like her <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/rpg\/blog\/2008\/12\/05\/in-which-i-watch-the-watchmen-and-land-a-new-job\">dad<\/a>, my youngest (just turned nine) is keeping her career options open. This is something she wrote two weeks ago at school:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>When I&#8217;m older I&#8217;d like to&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nbe a surgeon, a librarian, a florist, Prime Minister, an artist, a teacher, a pianist, an art teacher, a piano teacher or a scientist.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nShe then had to choose two and write about them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFirst, I would like to be a surgeon because I don&#8217;t know what people&#8217;s insides look like and I don&#8217;t get queasy at the thought.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhich, I guess, is as good a reason as any. At least she&#8217;s honest about it; and this ties in with her final career choice, to be a scientist. I haven&#8217;t had the heart to tell her that surgeons don&#8217;t actually find out how people work: they simply <del>put them back together after scientists have taken them apart<\/del> try to mend any broken bits. A noble calling, certainly, but I do wonder what Sophie will want to do <em>after<\/em> she&#8217;s found out what a spleen looks like. And all the other interesting bits (cook them, possibly).<\/p>\n<p>\nThen, she said that she wanted to be a librarian because she likes reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI&#8217;ll never be short of books there!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nFrom what I know of Sophie that, actually, does sound like Paradise.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/labrats\/nature\/spleen.jpg\" alt=\"spleen and other organs\" width=\"637\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like her dad, my youngest (just turned nine) is keeping her career options open. This is something she wrote two weeks ago at school: When I&#8217;m older I&#8217;d like to&#8230; be a surgeon, a librarian, a florist, Prime Minister, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/12\/23\/what_i_want_to_do_when_i_grow_up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}