{"id":363,"date":"2009-01-05T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T14:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/01\/05\/you_can_call_him_al\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T14:48:05","slug":"you_can_call_him_al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/01\/05\/you_can_call_him_al\/","title":{"rendered":"You can call him Al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is normally <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/matt\/profile\">Matt&#8217;s<\/a> brief but I thought people (in the UK at least) might be interested to know that a three-part series on <em>Science and Islam<\/em>, fronted by Prof Jim Al-Khalili, starts at 9 pm tonight on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\">BBC4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe first part is all about Al, or al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham to give him his full name, an Islamic scientist born in 965 AD whom Al-Khalili describes as the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7810846.stm\">&#8216;first true scientist&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tAl-Khalili&#8217;s earlier documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/documentaries\/features\/atom.shtml\">Atom<\/a>, on the birth of modern physics  was very watchable, so tonight&#8217;s offering should be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is normally Matt&#8217;s brief but I thought people (in the UK at least) might be interested to know that a three-part series on Science and Islam, fronted by Prof Jim Al-Khalili, starts at 9 pm tonight on BBC4. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/01\/05\/you_can_call_him_al\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}