{"id":605,"date":"2016-06-21T02:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/?p=605"},"modified":"2020-04-19T01:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:06:58","slug":"attending-a-thesis-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Attending a Thesis Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas, the Blacker RA, was going to give his thesis defense, so the hovse did the obvious thing, and made shirts with his face on them to wear to the defense.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Lucas started, Blacker took up the last 3 rows in the lecture hall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-606\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"22\" width=\"492\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/22-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/22.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were also &#8220;LucasRA&#8221; capes worn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-607\" src=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/23-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"23\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/23-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/23-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/23.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas, the Blacker RA, was going to give his thesis defense, so the hovse did the obvious thing, and made shirts with his face on them to wear to the defense. By the time Lucas started, Blacker took up the last 3 rows in the lecture hall. &nbsp; There were also &#8220;LucasRA&#8221; capes worn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacker.caltech.edu\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}