{"id":45,"date":"2008-04-22T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T23:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:28:58","slug":"back-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/back-in-the-saddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After wandering aimlessly through the desert raising that first cup of water to your parched lips is a simply divine experience. \u00a0So too is the first blog entry after an extended hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>I have been a terrible author so far in 2008. \u00a0At least I have something to show for it though: a PhD. \u00a0Yes friends, the thesis defense is done. \u00a0I won&#8217;t even mention Sarah and I moving to California, starting a new postdoc at UCSB, and the birth of my godson Samuel. \u00a0So much has gone on that it will take a few entries to catch up.  It has been a long dry spell since December.  Still, know that I haven&#8217;t forgotten about the blog and that new entries are on the way&#8230; \u00a0~Craig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After wandering aimlessly through the desert raising that first cup of water to your parched lips is a simply divine experience. \u00a0So too is the first blog entry after an extended hiatus. I have been a terrible author so far in 2008. \u00a0At least I have something to show for it though: a PhD. \u00a0Yes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}