{"id":122,"date":"2006-01-26T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T11:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-01-26T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T11:37:20","slug":"bloody-builders-due-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Bloody builders due again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So more random social notes.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Newspapers scouring the country for a woman who&#8217;ll admit to sleeping with Simon Hughes. Probably gone into hiding alongside Anne Atkins&#8217; gay friends.<\/li>\n<li>To the <em>Telegraph&#8217;s<\/em> <em>Scientists meet the media<\/em> bash last night, dressed for the occasion in a suit and tie. Meet on the stairs a contributor to this comment section who is with a pretty young woman who looks thoughtful and amused, rather than enraptured, to be in the company of two such distinguished old farts. Our conversation goes something like this:<br \/>\nCommentator: &#8220;Ah &#8211; Andrew. Loved the Caitlin piece.&#8221;<br \/>\nPretty Young Woman: &#8220;What was that about?&#8221;<br \/>\nC: &#8220;Blow jobs!&#8221;<br \/>\nDiscussion becomes general and rather confused.<br \/>\n<span class=\"caps\">PYW<\/span>: &#8220;And how did you know about it?&#8221;<br \/>\nC: &#8220;I read it on his blog.&#8221;<br \/>\nI become aware that I have just been, in effect, introduced to a complete stranger, someone with whom, under other circumstances, I might have enjoyed some conversation, as <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.theregister.co.uk\/search\/?q=rotting+dog\">a man who keeps a blog<\/a> about blow jobs. No wonder George Carey won&#8217;t sign the comments he makes here.<\/li>\n<li>Not one person I talked to at the party had a good word for Richard Dawkins&#8217; TV series. The most vigorous denunciations all came from atheist scientists. I was a little surprised, since one of them had been very close to him.<\/li>\n<li>Sue Blackmore&#8217;s hair has gone quite white &#8212;  and green, and red, with only a few yellow streaks left.<\/li>\n<li>Richard Harries signs his emails &#8220;+ Richard&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At this, the doorbell rings, preserving you all from further excitement.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So more random social notes. Newspapers scouring the country for a woman who&#8217;ll admit to sleeping with Simon Hughes. Probably gone into hiding alongside Anne Atkins&#8217; gay friends. To the Telegraph&#8217;s Scientists meet the media bash last night, dressed for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}