{"id":233,"date":"2007-05-01T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2007-05-01T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T20:47:33","slug":"purely-out-of-intellectual-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Purely out of intellectual duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, alright &#8230; two separate readers pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/01\/science\/01duck.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">this<\/a> story (from today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>), about recent research into defense mechanisms in female duck genitalia (&#8220;not quite biting, but it sure looks unpleasant,&#8221; as one of them says).<\/p>\n<p>Even I have gotten bored of this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, alright &#8230; two separate readers pointed me to this story (from today&#8217;s New York Times), about recent research into defense mechanisms in female duck genitalia (&#8220;not quite biting, but it sure looks unpleasant,&#8221; as one of them says). Even I have gotten bored of this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}