{"id":2691,"date":"2006-11-28T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/brain-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T00:19:00","slug":"brain-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/brain-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;ve been listening to scientists prattle on all day and it only reinforces my views that most academics can&apos;t speak in public to save their lives. I hate it, but apparently at least I&apos;m entertaining when I give a presentation. These people are&#8230; dull. Not only are they boring, they drone on and on and on and make what could be a really interesting topic about as interesting as a rectal enema. My brain shut down about an hour ago and right now, I&apos;m trying to sit quietly and not droll on myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;ve been listening to scientists prattle on all day and it only reinforces my views that most academics can&apos;t speak in public to save their lives. I hate it, but apparently at least I&apos;m entertaining when I give a presentation. These people are&#8230; dull. Not only are they boring, they drone on and on and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/brain-meltdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Brain meltdown&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dealing-with-idiots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}