{"id":211,"date":"2008-09-04T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-09-04T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:38:19","slug":"whew-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Whew!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am completely and totally done with the <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=200\">grant proposals<\/a>. I have read a thousand pages of proposal, written my share of reviews, participated in an interminable conference call, and written my final summaries. <\/p>\n<p>Done. Except for the shredding. <\/p>\n<p>I gave up much of two weekends and many evenings to this volunteer activity, because that&#8217;s what makes the practical end of science work &#8211; peer review of manuscripts and proposals is an essential, if unthrilling, activity. I volunteered, it needed done. But at the end of the conference call, the organizer announces, &#8220;Thank you all. Everyone but Sarah needs to call my secretary and leave your SSN so that we can send you each a check for $225.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not eligible, even though I did the vast majority of work on this on my own time, not the government&#8217;s. And it didn&#8217;t bother me at all until I learned that everyone else involved got an honorarium. When everyone was a volunteer, I was fine with the whole concept of working weekends. Now I&#8217;m kind of peeved, petty though it is. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I&#8217;m done, and we can get back to fun things around here. <\/p>\n<p>The only comment on my minor blog redesign was completely positive. I guess that means people who don&#8217;t like it just quit reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am completely and totally done with the grant proposals. I have read a thousand pages of proposal, written my share of reviews, participated in an interminable conference call, and written my final summaries. Done. Except for the shredding. I gave up much of two weekends and many evenings to this volunteer activity, because that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}