{"id":70,"date":"2007-01-17T09:11:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2007-01-22T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T20:36:43","slug":"i-want-to-be-john-tierney-when-i-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/i-want-to-be-john-tierney-when-i-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to be John Tierney when I grow up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">new blog<\/a> should be read based on its &#8220;about&#8221; space, alone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Tierney always wanted to be a scientist but went into journalism because its peer-review process was a great deal easier to sneak through. Now a columnist for the Science Times section, Tierney previously wrote columns for the Op-Ed page, the Metro section and the Times Magazine. Before that he covered science for magazines like Discover, Hippocrates and Science 86.<\/p>\n<p>With your help, he&#8217;s using TierneyLab to check out new research and rethink conventional wisdom about science and society. The Lab&#8217;s work is guided by two founding principles:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"about\">\n<li>1. Just because an idea appeals to a lot of people doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s wrong.<\/li>\n<li>2. But that&#8217;s a good working theory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tierney&#8217;s an interesting writer, and the comments section is already attracting an interesting crowd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: added the darn link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney&#8217;s new blog should be read based on its &#8220;about&#8221; space, alone: John Tierney always wanted to be a scientist but went into journalism because its peer-review process was a great deal easier to sneak through. Now a columnist for the Science Times section, Tierney previously wrote columns for the Op-Ed page, the Metro [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-gregs-reference","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-18","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}