{"id":161,"date":"2010-09-05T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/09\/05\/guardian_of_science\/"},"modified":"2010-12-26T23:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:30:21","slug":"guardian_of_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/09\/05\/guardian_of_science\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may not have heard of last week&#8217;s launch of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2010\/aug\/31\/blogging-digital-media\">new science blogging site<\/a> by the Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>They have a core group of regular bloggers &#8212;\u00a0Jon Butterworth, Dr Evan Harris, Martin Robbins and NN&#8217;s own Grrlscientist &#8212; who between them will be covering good science, bad science and science policy. It&#8217;s yet another bright addition to the rapidly changing firmament that is today&#8217;s blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a festival to mark the launch of the new site several other bloggers were asked to write pieces and I was delighted to be offered the chance to contribute. I&#8217;m a bit late with the notification &#8212; a wedding and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceonlinelondon.org\/index.php\">#solo10 conference<\/a> intervened &#8212;\u00a0but on Friday they posted my starry eyed account of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2010\/sep\/03\/amateur-astronomy-telescope-night-sky\">my summer telescopery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (3:20 pm):<\/strong> Errant link now fixed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may not have heard of last week&#8217;s launch of a new science blogging site by the Guardian newspaper. They have a core group of regular bloggers &#8212;\u00a0Jon Butterworth, Dr Evan Harris, Martin Robbins and NN&#8217;s own Grrlscientist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/09\/05\/guardian_of_science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}