{"id":9657,"date":"2003-05-22T04:43:58","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/05\/22\/the-allegory-of-the-phd\/"},"modified":"2003-05-22T04:43:58","modified_gmt":"2003-05-22T09:43:58","slug":"the-allegory-of-the-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/05\/22\/9657-the-allegory-of-the-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Allegory of the PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Somewhat bizarrely, a PhD student at the UK University of Leeds has chosen to express the long and difficult process of writing a PHD with an allegory using LOTR. Laura sent it in to see if  someone might find it amusing. I did. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbl.leeds.ac.uk\/~paul\/lotr.html\" target=new>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat bizarrely, a PhD student at the UK University of Leeds has chosen to express the long and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-2vL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}