{"id":7334,"date":"2016-06-17T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2016-08-28T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T04:23:54","slug":"what-a-small-ot-world-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/17\/what-a-small-ot-world-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Small OT World It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the next few years, I will personally know at least 1 in every 420 OTs in America. So if you were to ask if I knew your random OT friend, there&#8217;s actually a chance I&#8217;d say &#8220;yes&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/healthcare\/occupational-therapists.htm\">115,000 OTs in the US<\/a><br \/>\nI personally know 270 (30 current occupational therapists, 80 students in my cohort, 100 students in the previous cohort, 60 students in the next cohort) 270 \/ 115,000  = 0.0023 . . . . 0.23% of the OTs in America, that&#8217;s 1 in every 420 OTs in America!<\/p>\n<p>It is very important to not burn professional bridges!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next few years, I will personally know at least 1 in every 420 OTs in America. So if you were to ask if I knew your random OT friend, there&#8217;s actually a chance I&#8217;d say &#8220;yes&#8221;! There are 115,000 OTs in the US I personally know 270 (30 current occupational therapists, 80 students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}