{"id":154,"date":"2007-02-07T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T02:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/154"},"modified":"2007-02-07T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T02:07:19","slug":"some-decisions-look-even-better-in-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/some-decisions-look-even-better-in-hindsight\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Decisions Look Even Better in Hindsight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago Dr. James Sherley became one of the hundreds of talented MIT professors who were denied tenure and sent packing.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike most, he started on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www-tech.mit.edu\/V127\/N1\/1sherley.html \">hunger strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I postulate: If someone thinks that a hunger strike is a good way to get tenure, they&#8217;re likely not a good candidate for tenure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never met the guy and I don&#8217;t know his research, but from my perspective his tenure committee made a good call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago Dr. James Sherley became one of the hundreds of talented MIT professors who were denied tenure and sent packing.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike most, he started on a hunger strike. I postulate: If someone thinks that a hunger strike is a good way to get tenure, they&#8217;re likely not a good candidate for tenure. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}