{"id":603,"date":"2002-02-15T19:23:40","date_gmt":"2002-02-15T23:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/02\/its-an-engineers-life\/"},"modified":"2002-02-15T19:23:40","modified_gmt":"2002-02-15T23:23:40","slug":"its-an-engineers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/02\/its-an-engineers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s an Engineer&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I talked about engineering to a bunch of 8th graders.  Sounds easy, right?  Right.  For the past 4 (5?) years I&#8217;ve volunteered for National Engineer&#8217;s Week, where a number of us go to a middle school and do nifty engineering-type demonstrations for the kids so they&#8217;ll be interested in taking math and science in high school.  Don&#8217;t know if it works or not, but most of the kids like it.  I must be getting old, though, because these kids look younger and younger every year.  :)  And, after standing for the whole day and talking for 8 hours straight, I&#8217;m hobbling around the house like an old woman.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll get my voice back before rehearsal tomorrow morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I talked about engineering to a bunch of 8th graders. Sounds easy, right? Right. For the past 4 (5?) years I&#8217;ve volunteered for National Engineer&#8217;s Week, where a number of us go to a middle school and do nifty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}