{"id":775,"date":"2010-06-11T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2010\/06\/11\/in_which_i_am_watched\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:14:36","slug":"in_which_i_am_watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2010\/06\/11\/in_which_i_am_watched\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am watched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it&#8217;s Friday pretty much everywhere at the moment, I thought I&#8217;d share a little revelation I had this morning. <\/p>\n<p>\nEvery time I work down in the yeast lab, I get the nagging, uneasy sensation that someone is watching me. It doesn&#8217;t make any sense, because the lab is bright, cheerful, infused with music and laughter and banter &#8211; not even remotely sinister. But even when I&#8217;m alone, I feel those cool, dispassionate eyes boring into the back of my neck, prickling at the tiny hairs on my skin.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis morning, I finally worked it out: there is an undercover Dalek in the room, just waiting for the best moment to make his move. Can you spot him in this picture?<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dalek.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ue19877e8\/Dalek.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it&#8217;s Friday pretty much everywhere at the moment, I thought I&#8217;d share a little revelation I had this morning. Every time I work down in the yeast lab, I get the nagging, uneasy sensation that someone is watching me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2010\/06\/11\/in_which_i_am_watched\/\">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-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}