{"id":1623,"date":"2005-11-25T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/11\/25\/the_demons.html"},"modified":"2005-11-25T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2005-11-25T12:18:06","slug":"the_demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/11\/25\/the_demons.html","title":{"rendered":"the demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often told that academics chase their demons.  They study what they can&#8217;t understand in themselves, following their demons out of a desire for resolution.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also noticed that many of my professional colleagues work to avoid their demons.  They travel to outrun them and work so excessively in fear that their demons may confront them.<\/p>\n<p>I started wondering what it means to be a workaholic academic.  Does it mean that you&#8217;re chasing your demons as they chase you?  Or does it mean that you find masochistic joy in constantly facing those demons?  Or does it mean that you become your demons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often told that academics chase their demons. They study what they can&#8217;t understand in themselves, following their demons out of a desire for resolution. I&#8217;ve also noticed that many of my professional colleagues work to avoid their demons. They travel to outrun them and work so excessively in fear that their demons may confront [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-observations","tag-demons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}