{"id":430,"date":"2002-10-05T19:36:04","date_gmt":"2002-10-05T23:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2002-10-05T19:36:04","modified_gmt":"2002-10-05T23:36:04","slug":"shame-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"shame averted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remeber when the Melissa virus swept the world.? I was writing a column for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/clipnoframe.html#flipmenu('staggers')\" title=\"Dunno if this will work: use the rollover if not\"> New Statesman<\/a> then, and it was hard to disguise the humiliation I felt when I didn&#8217;t get a copy. But it&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">OK.<\/span> The first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com.\/virusinfo\/analyses\/w32bugbeara.html\" title=\"detailed description o fthe little bugger\">Bugbear<\/a> turned up ten minutes ago, all in French. Little things like that mean a lot to a writers&#8217; self-esteem.<\/p>\n\n<p>I sent a note to Rosamond to warn her, and she replied at once that they had been told about it in school assembly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remeber when the Melissa virus swept the world.? I was writing a column for the New Statesman then, and it was hard to disguise the humiliation I felt when I didn&#8217;t get a copy. But it&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">OK.<\/span> The first Bugbear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}