{"id":703,"date":"2009-03-10T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/03\/10\/in_which_life_goes_on\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T08:39:26","slug":"in_which_life_goes_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/03\/10\/in_which_life_goes_on\/","title":{"rendered":"In which life goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Momentous things always happen when I&#8217;m not looking. While I was off gliding through waist-high powder and suffering death by fondue in Les Menuires last week,<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/images\/Skiing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"425\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Above the clouds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/2251337.stm\">Wendy Richard<\/a> died of cancer,<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/images\/Wendy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The end of an Eastenders era<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/rpg\/blog\">Richard<\/a> packed up to leave Australia,<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/images\/Oz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"463\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A big country just got a bit smaller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2009\/03\/the_open_laboratory_2008_is_he.php\">Bora<\/a> midwifed the final production of <em>The Open Laboratory 2008<\/em>, which is now up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/6110823\">sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/images\/OL09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"448\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A book of blogs, buffed and polished to a high gloss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nPlease support the cause and buy a copy of this book: a number of your lovely colleagues are featured in it, Richard and I lost several weeks of our lives editing it, and all proceeds go to two excellent causes: bigging up the concept of science blogs in general, and giving a wee financial boost to next year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceonline09.com\/index.php\/wiki\/\">ScienceOnline blogging conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nYou know you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momentous things always happen when I&#8217;m not looking. While I was off gliding through waist-high powder and suffering death by fondue in Les Menuires last week, Above the clouds Wendy Richard died of cancer, The end of an Eastenders era &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2009\/03\/10\/in_which_life_goes_on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}