{"id":2867,"date":"2018-03-21T08:09:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2018-03-21T08:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:09:29","slug":"well-here-goes-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Well\u2026 Here Goes Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite &#8220;nothing,&#8221; but let&#8217;s be brutally honest: that&#8217;s the most likely outcome of my going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/botanicgardens.uw.edu\/education\/adults\/conferences-symposia\/wa-botanical-symposium\/\">Washington Botanical Symposium<\/a> to do some job networking. First, I totally fucking suck at anything that requires social skills, and networking requires such skills <em>in spades.<\/em> Second, the odds in general are bleak, even if I do try a few strategies to cope with the first issue (which I plan to do).<\/p>\n<p>Still, the odds are better than staying at home and not making any attempts at networking at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite &#8220;nothing,&#8221; but let&#8217;s be brutally honest: that&#8217;s the most likely outcome of my going to the Washington Botanical Symposium to do some job networking. First, I totally fucking suck at anything that requires social skills, and networking requires such skills in spades. Second, the odds in general are bleak, even if I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}