{"id":4268,"date":"2010-06-01T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2010-06-01T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T13:45:29","slug":"i-like-the-idea-of-a-cowshark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4268","title":{"rendered":"I Like the Idea of a CowShark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Brooker has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/may\/24\/charlie-brooker-artificial-life-here\">an article<\/a> up at The Guardian, weighing in on the recent breakthrough in creating artificial life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To &#8220;watermark&#8221; their artificial bug, the geneticists spliced a James Joyce quotation into the DNA sequence. The unsuspecting genome now has the phrase &#8220;to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life&#8221; written through it like letters in a stick of rock. In other words, it&#8217;s the world&#8217;s most pretentious bacterium. After Quentin Letts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Brooker has an article up at The Guardian, weighing in on the recent breakthrough in creating artificial life. To &#8220;watermark&#8221; their artificial bug, the geneticists spliced a James Joyce quotation into the DNA sequence. The unsuspecting genome now has the phrase &#8220;to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}