{"id":445,"date":"2007-08-26T04:21:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T10:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=445"},"modified":"2007-08-26T04:22:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T10:22:37","slug":"dr-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Dr. May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Timothy Ferris&#8217;s <em>Seeing in the Dark<\/em> since I may myself be an amateur, rather than professional, astronomer soon. He has a phone interview with Brian May &#8212; the lead guitarist of Queen &#8212; where he talks about being an astronomy graduate student and how he left it for music but still loves the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Nah! He&#8217;s making that up!&#8221; So I looked it up. And in one those of those weird coincidences, just two days before I read Ferris&#8217; account, May <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070824\/wl_uk_afp\/entertainmentbritain_070824070925;_ylt=Ah6XyfdPQViGoYjafV6kZR.s0NUE\">got his fricking PhD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Great. Someone else to compete with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading Timothy Ferris&#8217;s Seeing in the Dark since I may myself be an amateur, rather than professional, astronomer soon. He has a phone interview with Brian May &#8212; the lead guitarist of Queen &#8212; where he talks about being an astronomy graduate student and how he left it for music but still loves the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. May<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-7b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}