{"id":135,"date":"2004-06-25T09:08:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T09:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=135"},"modified":"2004-06-25T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T09:08:46","slug":"quote-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/06\/25\/quote-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #36"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life &#8211; so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so that you can meet girls.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Matt Cartmill &#8211; Professor of Biology, Duke University.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/dontdancewithdna\/\">Don&#8217;t Dance with DNA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life &#8211; so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so that you can meet girls. Matt Cartmill &#8211; Professor of Biology, Duke University. Via Don&#8217;t Dance with DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}