{"id":261,"date":"2013-07-22T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=261"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:32:24","slug":"faculty-lounges-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/07\/22\/faculty-lounges-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Lounges on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TV show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fallingskies.com\" target=\"_blank\">Falling Skies<\/a>\u00a0depicts a United States of America struggling to fight off an alien invasion. Last night&#8217;s episode depicted an alternate reality where several of the main characters were on the faculty at Boston University. The character who actually was a BU professor before the invasion was shown as a department chair who was being considered as the next dean of his college. In several scenes he and the other characters were placed in what appeared to be a faculty lounge, and they engaged in both intellectual discussions as well as gossip. They appeared to be quite the collegial bunch! Maybe I should think about creating a social sciences and professional studies faculty lounge here at the U of Wisconsin-Parkside?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TV show Falling Skies\u00a0depicts a United States of America struggling to fight off an alien invasion. Last night&#8217;s episode depicted an alternate reality where several of the main characters were on the faculty at Boston University. The character who actually was a BU professor before the invasion was shown as a department chair who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}