{"id":1241,"date":"2023-09-26T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:38","slug":"my-hero-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"My Hero Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any of my friends in or out of academia care to comment on this image, from the My Hero Academia series (manga and anime)?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/My-Hero-Academia-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/My-Hero-Academia-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/My-Hero-Academia-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/My-Hero-Academia-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/My-Hero-Academia-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are those little bits flying above the hand?&nbsp;&nbsp;Fly ash scraps?&nbsp;&nbsp;Flying unknown beings or worlds?&nbsp;&nbsp;And are they coming or going?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is the person (he? her? they?) a master summoning them?&nbsp;&nbsp;A victim about to be attacked?&nbsp;&nbsp;Or some mysterious third possibility?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many ambiguities!&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, raising inconvenient but necessary questions is what we do in academia.  Or are <em>supposed<\/em> to be doing.&nbsp;&nbsp;So \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikipedia: &#8220;The series takes place in a fictional world where over 80% of the population possesses a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superpower_(ability)\">superpower<\/a>, commonly referred to as a &#8216;Quirk.&#8217;  The advent of these abilities has given rise to not only professional heroes but also villains.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_My_Hero_Academia_characters#Tsuyu_Asui\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_My_Hero_Academia_characters#Tsuyu_Asui<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any of my friends in or out of academia care to comment on this image, from the My Hero Academia series (manga and anime)?&nbsp;&nbsp; What are those little bits flying above the hand?&nbsp;&nbsp;Fly ash scraps?&nbsp;&nbsp;Flying unknown beings or worlds?&nbsp;&nbsp;And are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,174,176,173],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}