{"id":373,"date":"2010-08-18T14:02:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/08\/18\/on_the_origin_of_science_writers\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:02:41","slug":"on_the_origin_of_science_writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/08\/18\/on_the_origin_of_science_writers\/","title":{"rendered":"On the origin of science writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email yesterday from somebody asking for advice on getting into science journalism. I hate things like that&#8211;I never know how to answer and am always afraid &#8220;it was random luck&#8221; might be giving away too many secrets.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut then I stumbled across Ed Yong&#8217;s thread <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/07\/29\/on-the-origin-of-science-writers\/\">On the origin of science writers<\/a> and realized that I could point my correspondent there. Shameless, moi?<\/p>\n<p>\nSome interesting stories&#8211;go take a look if you haven&#8217;t seen it.<\/p>\n<p>\nOh, and I did contribute, too.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email yesterday from somebody asking for advice on getting into science journalism. I hate things like that&#8211;I never know how to answer and am always afraid &#8220;it was random luck&#8221; might be giving away too many secrets. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/08\/18\/on_the_origin_of_science_writers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}