{"id":1126,"date":"2011-09-30T23:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2011-09-30T23:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T06:34:42","slug":"silicon-valley-wins-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/09\/silicon-valley-wins-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley wins again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Silicon Valleyite has gotten another distinguished award. Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/\">John Perry of Stanford University was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize<\/a> for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which states: &#8220;To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that&#8217;s even more important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perry&#8217;s original research was published in <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/How-to-ProcrastinateStill\/93959\">the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> in February, 1996<\/a>. Perry did not go in person to receive his award, which is no surprise since the awards were given out at Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Silicon Valleyite has gotten another distinguished award. Yesterday, John Perry of Stanford University was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which states: &#8220;To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that&#8217;s even more important.&#8221; Perry&#8217;s original research was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/09\/silicon-valley-wins-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silicon Valley wins again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}