{"id":2931,"date":"2015-06-17T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2015-04-08T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:03:00","slug":"who-am-i-wednesday-phil-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/06\/17\/who-am-i-wednesday-phil-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? Wednesday &#8211; Phil Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:\u00a0 <\/strong>Philip Watson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area of Study \/ Position Title:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Professor (Physical Chemistry)\/Associate Chair<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turned on to chemistry when about 12 after receiving a home chemistry set as a Xmas gift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Used to research chemistry at the surface of things.\u00a0 Nowadays, I teach and look after organizing teaching schedules, scheduling classes, assigning TAs, riding herd over the general chemistry teaching staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing you truly love about your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The light-bulb moment when a student who was struggling with a concept &#8220;gets it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One interesting\/strange factoid about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like to play cutthroat competitive duplicate bridge at the local club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0 Philip Watson Area of Study \/ Position Title:\u00a0\u00a0 Professor (Physical Chemistry)\/Associate Chair Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?): Turned on to chemistry when about 12 after receiving a home chemistry set as a Xmas gift. Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties? Used to research chemistry at the surface of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2015\/06\/17\/who-am-i-wednesday-phil-watson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208276],"tags":[187041,208278,208277,208281],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-am-i","tag-phil-watson","tag-wai","tag-who-am-i-2","tag-who-am-i-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}