{"id":127,"date":"2009-05-14T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T20:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2009-07-15T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T19:21:42","slug":"a-tempting-alternative-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-tempting-alternative-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tempting PhD Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know I&#8217;m a part-time (very part-time) PhD student. It really is quite a lot of work and time, and seems like it&#8217;ll never come to an end. I wonder if I should consider this alternative:<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/universityeducation\/5306317\/McDonalds-plans-to-offer-McPhDs-to-boost-staff-training.html\">McDonald&#8217;s plans to offer &#8216;McPhDs&#8217; to boost staff training &#8230; under plans to attract more university graduates into burger bar management.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01246\/burger_1246935c.jpg\" alt=\"Burger\" width=\"460\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/phd-opportunities.php\">CRT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know I&#8217;m a part-time (very part-time) PhD student. It really is quite a lot of&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-tempting-alternative-phd\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}