{"id":610,"date":"2015-01-15T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-01-15T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T18:06:10","slug":"emails-are-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2015\/01\/15\/emails-are-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Emails are hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=1047\" target=\"_blank\">Piled Higher and Deeper<\/a>\u00a0(PhD Comics) about sums up\u00a0my\u00a0last two days!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been writing emails following up contacts made at the <a title=\"Me and my poster at the First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/2014\/12\/08\/me-and-my-poster-the-first-global-soil-biodiversity-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative Conference<\/a>\u00a0I attended back in December. Additionally I will soon start to customise\u00a0the standard email that my research group (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.predicts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">PREDICTS<\/a>) uses to request data from researchers.<\/p>\n<p>I find writing emails really stressful, worrying over every word,\u00a0and whether I will be misunderstood, which I know is silly because the recipient is unlikely to\u00a0read it in such detail. It&#8217;s good to know I&#8217;m not alone, thanks PhD Comics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comic from Piled Higher and Deeper\u00a0(PhD Comics) about sums up\u00a0my\u00a0last two days! I&#8217;ve been writing emails following up contacts made at the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative Conference\u00a0I attended back in December. Additionally I will soon start to customise\u00a0the standard email that my research group (PREDICTS) uses to request data from researchers. I find writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3203,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}