{"id":749,"date":"2014-03-17T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:57:49","slug":"s-t-joshi-work-habits-the-only-common-sense-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/17\/s-t-joshi-work-habits-the-only-common-sense-position\/","title":{"rendered":"S. T. Joshi Work Habits; The Only Common-Sense Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about this topic of work habits lately, and so keyed on this passage, from this <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/15\/us\/spreading-the-word-on-the-power-of-atheism.html\">profile of S.T. Joshi<\/a>, H.P. Lovecraft scholar and atheist\/agnostic writer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMr. Joshi does not teach, and he rarely lectures. For money, he writes. He keeps to a rigorous schedule, working every day from about 9 to 5, scheduling periodic breaks for refreshment. \u201cI am sort of a tea addict,\u201d he said. \u201cI structure my day by cups of tea. If you don\u2019t enforce that kind of discipline as a freelancer, you won\u2019t get anything done.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article also has this passage, after mentioning academic &#8216;amateurs&#8217; like Christopher Hitchins, Sam Harris, and James Randi and the illusionists Penn and Teller:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPerhaps because many academic philosophers take atheism to be a given, the only common-sense position, it is left to these quirky, freelance amateurs, with their large cabinets of obsessions, to make the public case against God.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about this topic of work habits lately, and so keyed on this passage, from this New York Times profile of S.T. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft scholar and atheist\/agnostic writer. Mr. Joshi does not teach, and he rarely lectures. For money, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/17\/s-t-joshi-work-habits-the-only-common-sense-position\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}