{"id":440,"date":"2007-04-30T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/the-little-scientist\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T20:29:12","slug":"the-little-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/the-little-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"The little scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have told Gennie that I don&#8217;t mind what Alexander does when he grows up as long as he grows up to be a scientist. I don&#8217;t mean that that necessarily has to be his job title or that he has to wear a lab coat, just that I hope that he always uses science and the scientific method in whatever he does. I hope he continues to take a keen interest in the world around him, develops theories about the world around him and then does experiments to find out if those theories are true.<\/p>\n<p>I do this in my job (and non-work life) all the time. Actually I suspect everyone does it, but most people probably don&#8217;t realize that they are actually doing science when they (for example) try another channel when there&#8217;s static on the TV to find out if it&#8217;s a problem with the TV (or cable provider) or just a problem with one particuar channel.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should have said &#8220;I don&#8217;t mind what my child does for a living as long as he understands what science is and appreciates its value whenever he uses it&#8221;. But that&#8217;s less catchy as a T-shirt slogan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have told Gennie that I don&#8217;t mind what Alexander does when he grows up as long as he grows up to be a scientist. I don&#8217;t mean that that necessarily has to be his job title or that he has to wear a lab coat, just that I hope that he always uses science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatherhood","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}