{"id":2800,"date":"2026-10-02T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:18:48","slug":"michael-smithson-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2026\/10\/02\/michael-smithson-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Smithson &#8217;72"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My book, &#8220;The Psychology of Ignorance&#8221;, was published by Oxford University Press in May this year. I was the first to write about ignorance as socially constructed, back in the 1980&#8217;s, and this book is a capstone on my career-long obsession with this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book, &#8220;The Psychology of Ignorance&#8221;, was published by Oxford University Press in May this year. I was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,27],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}