{"id":1158,"date":"2005-03-11T23:26:15","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/03\/11\/my-actual-work\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T03:26:15","slug":"my-actual-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/03\/11\/my-actual-work\/","title":{"rendered":"My actual work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a956'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry there&#8217;s been little of late.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been an up-and-down week on the academic front.<\/p>\n<p>It will have to suffice to say that I&#8217;ve been getting some encouraging<br \/>\nwords on my (very slow) progress, and some less (than) encouraging<br \/>\nwords on it.&nbsp; Some great help, some obscure help, some clear<br \/>\nguidance and suggestions, and some unclear suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>I know they never promised that academic work would be clear, but some<br \/>\npaths are clearer than others.&nbsp; And no matter what happens, you&#8217;re<br \/>\nsupposed to get back up, pound your head against the wall until you<br \/>\nblack out, and then wait to come to so you can start all over again.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnermuseum.org\/\">Isabella Stewart Gardner museum<\/a><br \/>\nprovided a brief respite.&nbsp; If you live around here, go see the<br \/>\ncollection of the rich, eccentric, very tasteful, Anglo-Catholic fag<br \/>\nhag we know and love as Mrs. Gardner.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnermuseum.org\/isabellas.asp\">And if your<br \/>\nname is Isabella, you can get in for free<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (13 March): Over the weekend, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/specials\/gardner_heist\/heist\/\">Globe ran a special report on the 15th anniversary of the Gardner Museum heist, the largest art theft in American history<\/a>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nFascinating stuff, made all the more so by having just been there and<br \/>\nseen the empty frames where the stolen pieces used to hang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry there&#8217;s been little of late.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been an up-and-down week on the academic front. It will have to suffice to say that I&#8217;ve been getting some encouraging words on my (very slow) progress, and some less (than) encouraging words on it.&nbsp; Some great help, some obscure help, some clear guidance and suggestions, and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivorytower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-iG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}