{"id":1449,"date":"2007-04-21T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2007-04-21T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T22:56:15","slug":"my-thesis-advisor-hates-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1449","title":{"rendered":"My THESIS advisor hates me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryjenkins.org\">Henry<\/a> liked me.  The man&#8217;s my mentor, my fearless leader, my department head and my thesis advisor.  He&#8217;s also currently the bane of my existence.<br \/>\nAnyone who says, &#8220;You know, you really should read Roland Barthes&#8221; as input on one&#8217;s THESIS clearly has it in for you.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t like Barthes when all I&#8217;d read of his was his &#8220;Death of the Author&#8221; essay.  After reading as much of <i>S\/Z<\/i> as I can stomach, I <i>really<\/i> don&#8217;t like him now.  Anybody who belittles <i>the entirety of literature before him<\/i> instantly qualifies in my bag as a ++Toolbox\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<br \/>\nRoland Barthes.  The original prententious bastard.<br \/>\n(On the upside, the piece by Marsha Kinder he pointed me to, and the old favorites of Janet Murray and Umberto Eco, are all very good, relevant and &#150; most of all &#150; readerly.  Barthes.  Toolbox.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Henry liked me. The man&#8217;s my mentor, my fearless leader, my department head and my thesis advisor. He&#8217;s also currently the bane of my existence. Anyone who says, &#8220;You know, you really should read Roland Barthes&#8221; as input on one&#8217;s THESIS clearly has it in for you. I didn&#8217;t like Barthes when all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-nn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}