{"id":527,"date":"2011-02-06T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=527"},"modified":"2011-02-06T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T10:59:39","slug":"on-belly-button-fluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2011\/02\/06\/on-belly-button-fluff\/","title":{"rendered":"On belly button fluff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ll have heard on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/article\/644\">LabLit<\/a> podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/\">Jenny<\/a> swabbed her belly button at the Science Online conference, all in the interests of science. You can find out <em>why<\/em> from Meg Lowman&#8217;s blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/canopymeg.com\/wp\/2011\/01\/16\/belly-button-biodiversity\/\">Belly Button Diversity<\/a>. Now, being the gentleman I am, I&#8217;m not going to tell you what (if anything) grew there\u2014but here&#8217;s a picture of what grew from my own swabbed button:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/files\/2011\/02\/fluff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/files\/2011\/02\/fluff-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Belly button culture\" title=\"Belly button culture\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/files\/2011\/02\/fluff-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/files\/2011\/02\/fluff-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/files\/2011\/02\/fluff.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, what can I say? Looks like there&#8217;s a few skin-dwelling staph, as you might expect, but a rather low number of critters eating my fluff. Unlike some of the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildlifeofyourbody.org\/plates.html\">filthy geeks<\/a> I rubbed shoulders with that weekend &lt;shudder&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>You can read what some of those filthy geeks think of it all at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robrdunn.com\/2011\/01\/the-wild-life-of-your-body\/\">Rob Dunn<\/a>&#8216;s blog; as for me, I&#8217;ve said enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ll have heard on the LabLit podcast, Jenny swabbed her belly button at the Science Online conference, all in the interests of science. You can find out why from Meg Lowman&#8217;s blog on Belly Button Diversity. Now, being the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2011\/02\/06\/on-belly-button-fluff\/\">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":[39],"tags":[84,85,66],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-less-sunday","tag-belly-button","tag-but-were-staph","tag-scio11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}