{"id":522,"date":"2011-03-16T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-03-16T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:34:15","slug":"parental-science-geeks-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2011\/03\/16\/parental-science-geeks-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental Science Geeks, Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us career scientists, our work&#8211;our <em>profession<\/em>&#8211;is really a way of life more than a job. So it is doubly so&#8211;perhaps exponentially so&#8211;when in a family both parents are <del datetime=\"2011-03-16T14:49:02+00:00\">science geeks<\/del> scientists. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long been portrayed as geeky and odd in the media. More recently, they have been <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2011\/03\/14\/in-which-i-lose-my-temper\/\">portrayed on Occam&#8217;s Typewriter in geeky fashion eyeware.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In geeky science families, dinner time can sometimes become a sounding ground for new ideas, and other science-related topics. How many of us parents have ever stopped to reflect how our children feel about this?<\/p>\n<p>Normal families discuss recent events, the news, culture, the arts and sports at mealtimes. And of course, nutrition; after all, we are all certified <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/2011\/03\/16\/regular\/\">nutritionists<\/a>. But what do scientist families discuss? <\/p>\n<p>Budding actress and cartoonist M.C. has provided us with some insight into the situation:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60661816@N02\/5531769503\/\">revenge<\/a> on the nerd-geek-parental scientists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us career scientists, our work&#8211;our profession&#8211;is really a way of life more than a job. So it is doubly so&#8211;perhaps exponentially so&#8211;when in a family both parents are science geeks scientists. Scientists have long been portrayed as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2011\/03\/16\/parental-science-geeks-beware\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,81,91,50],"tags":[157,158,162,159,156,160,161,83],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humor","category-research","category-science","tag-cartoon","tag-comics","tag-dinner","tag-losers-without-anything-else-to-talk-about","tag-parental-science-geeks","tag-pass-the-salt","tag-self-absorbed","tag-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}