{"id":178,"date":"2009-01-10T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=178"},"modified":"2009-01-10T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T19:14:58","slug":"another-amusing-professor-gchat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Another amusing professor GChat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I finished my comp in May, I had this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=112\">conversation<\/a> with a professor.\u00a0 Last night, I realized I forgot my Anthony Downs An Economic Theory of Democracy at home, so my away message was: &#8220;Doh, forgot downs at home&#8221; which prompted this conversation, which amused me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eric<\/span>: Don&#8217;t leave home without him.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">me<\/span>: Fortunately another desk had a copy.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eric<\/span>: lucky you.  my wife and I had a fight about downs in grad school.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">me<\/span>: That must of been a fun date<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eric<\/span>: she was using him to block the sound on our dial up modem by standing him on end, and I had to tell here not to do that.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em;\"><span>I mean, any other book would be fine.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em;\"><span>But Downs?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">me<\/span>: She should have definitely used The American Voter Revisited<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eric<\/span>: or the new american voter.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">me<\/span>: What book did you end up using?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eric<\/span>: Maybe Stuck in Traffic.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em;\"><span>as a compromise.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em;\"><span>But I don&#8217;t remember.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: block; padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -1em;\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">me<\/span>: compromise is good<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay.\u00a0 It was amusing to me who is the middle of finals.\u00a0 The bar may be a little low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I finished my comp in May, I had this conversation with a professor.\u00a0 Last night, I realized I forgot my Anthony Downs An Economic Theory of Democracy at home, so my away message was: &#8220;Doh, forgot downs at home&#8221; which prompted this conversation, which amused me. Eric: Don&#8217;t leave home without him.me: Fortunately another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-steve","category-personal-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}