{"id":983,"date":"2002-06-26T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2002-06-26T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2002-06-26T13:59:10","slug":"the-breeders-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"the breeder&#8217;s eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sex is one of the things that gets left out of pop science books, at least until the subject is safely dead. There&#8217;s not going to be much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcb.arizona.edu\/wardlab\/gallery.html\">copulation<\/a> in the worm book, either, at least among vertebrates.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBut I can&#8217;t resist one remark, made me by Muriel Wigby, who was a technician at the <span class=\"caps\">MRC <\/span>from 1957 to 1989, and thus worked, breeding worms and bacteriophage, alongside nine Nobel Prize winners, before retiring to breed dogs.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Most of the scientists&#8221; she said,  &#8220;were not good husbands, and very bad parents. Apart from being rich and fertile, they did nothing for their wives.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex is one of the things that gets left out of pop science books, at least until the subject is safely dead. There&#8217;s not going to be much copulation in the worm book, either, at least among vertebrates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}