{"id":74,"date":"2008-02-19T01:13:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T01:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/02\/19\/on_the_literal_mindedness_of_sub_editors\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T01:13:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T01:13:01","slug":"on_the_literal_mindedness_of_sub_editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/02\/19\/on_the_literal_mindedness_of_sub_editors\/","title":{"rendered":"On the literal-mindedness of sub-editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paper from our lab has gone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbc.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/283\/8\/5158\">online<\/a> in a certain journal (unrelated to NPG).  There&#8217;s a rather odd footnote attached to the second author&#8217;s name:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/labrats\/images\/Picture%201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"47\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nYou won&#8217;t have much luck obtaining a &#8216;Plant Homeodomain Fellowship&#8217;: the first author tells me that he decoded the abbreviation &#8216;PHD&#8217; at the proof stage, but an over-zealous copy editor thought it also applied to &#8216;PhD&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\nBloody amateurs.  What do they teach these people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper from our lab has gone online in a certain journal (unrelated to NPG). There&#8217;s a rather odd footnote attached to the second author&#8217;s name: You won&#8217;t have much luck obtaining a &#8216;Plant Homeodomain Fellowship&#8217;: the first author tells &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/02\/19\/on_the_literal_mindedness_of_sub_editors\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}