{"616064":{"#nid":"616064","#data":{"type":"event","title":"How a Failed Astrophysics Major Became a Successful Science Writer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAbstract: I knew from the time I was a very young child that I wanted to be an astronomer. The dream lasted until I got to college, where I learned to my dismay that I actually had no passion for doing what an astronomer does; what I really wanted is to know what an astronomer knows. This is the story of how it all worked out.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/michaeldlemonick.com\/bios\/michael-d-lemonick\u0022\u003EMICHAEL D. LEMONICK\u003C\/a\u003E is the Opinion Editor at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\u0022\u003EScientific American\u003C\/a\u003E. He has written more than 50\u0026nbsp;Time\u0026nbsp;magazine cover stories on science, and has written for\u0026nbsp;National Geographic,\u0026nbsp;The New Yorker\u0026nbsp;and other publications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Physics Public Lecture with Michael Lemonick, Scientific American"}],"uid":"34553","created_gmt":"2019-01-08 16:19:32","changed_gmt":"2019-01-22 13:15:44","author":"sniebuhr3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-03-12T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-03-12T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-03-12T20:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-03-12 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-03-13 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-03-13 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616065":{"id":"616065","type":"image","title":"lemonick","body":null,"created":"1546964990","gmt_created":"2019-01-08 16:29:50","changed":"1546964990","gmt_changed":"2019-01-08 16:29:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"234502","name":"aRtieNcK_400x400.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aRtieNcK_400x400.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aRtieNcK_400x400.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27742,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/aRtieNcK_400x400.jpg?itok=Dp_blvcP"}}},"media_ids":["616065"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/","title":"Scientific American"},{"url":"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/voices\/women-in-science-are-a-force-of-nature\/","title":"Women in Science are a Force of Nature"}],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"960","name":"physics"},{"id":"167040","name":"science"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}