{"id":1906,"date":"2010-07-28T23:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2010-07-28T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T05:33:24","slug":"dont-listen-to-me-im-just-a-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/28\/dont-listen-to-me-im-just-a-comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Listen To Me; I&#8217;m Just A Comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read the comments, you know I occasionally hear from people who point out that I&#8217;m just a comedian and have no business commenting on the health sciences.\u00a0 I get those on the YouTube channel too, usually in language that is far less polite than on the blog.\u00a0 I guess people feel more anonymous on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never understood the belief that only people with degrees have any real expertise, or that everyone with a degree is an expert.\u00a0 I had a lot of great teachers in high school and college, but also a\u00a0few who were dunces &#8212; dunces with PhDs.\u00a0 Meanwhile, some of the most successful people I&#8217;ve met are working in fields that have nothing to do with what they studied in college &#8212; if they even attended college.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomnaughton.com\/?p=723\" target=\"_blank\">a piece on the topic<\/a> on my other blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read the comments, you know I occasionally hear from people who point out that I&#8217;m just a comedian and have no business commenting on the health sciences.\u00a0 I&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/28\/dont-listen-to-me-im-just-a-comedian\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}