{"id":10174,"date":"2019-09-27T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10174"},"modified":"2019-09-27T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T20:50:50","slug":"why-is-prof-crowley-so-weird-in-a-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/27\/why-is-prof-crowley-so-weird-in-a-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Prof. Crowley so weird? In a good way."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09262019-03.jpg\" alt=\"Why is Prof. Crowley so weird? In a good way.\" class=\"wp-image-10151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09262019-03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09262019-03-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09262019-03-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09262019-03-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Why is Prof. Crowley so weird? In a good way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You see, being a library wall, I&#8217;ve come to know academics pretty well. They&#8217;re all a little&#8230; eccentric. A whole lot of specialized knowledge does that to you. One famous academic once referred to it as the &#8220;re-entry from orbit&#8221; problem (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/percy-orbit\">bit.ly\/percy-orbit<\/a>) You spend weeks or months or even years working on an intractable problem that few people in the world even know exists. It can be hard to return to everyday life. Does that answer the specific weirdness you\u2019ve observed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see, being a library wall, I&#8217;ve come to know academics pretty well. They&#8217;re all a little&#8230; eccentric. A whole lot of specialized knowledge does that to you. One famous academic once referred to it as the &#8220;re-entry from orbit&#8221; problem (bit.ly\/percy-orbit) You spend weeks or months or even years working on an intractable problem &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/27\/why-is-prof-crowley-so-weird-in-a-good-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is Prof. Crowley so weird? In a good way.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10188,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10174\/revisions\/10188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}