{"id":1650,"date":"2008-06-11T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/06\/11\/something_cool_from_the_bbc\/"},"modified":"2008-06-11T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T22:28:10","slug":"something_cool_from_the_bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/06\/11\/something_cool_from_the_bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Something cool from the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not football. Although I&#8217;m enjoying that too.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA gynaecologist in Belgium has managed to film the moment of human ovulation for the first time. The process took about 15 minutes, and from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/7447942.stm\">the stills on the BBC website<\/a> looks uncannily like a sea anemone enjoying some bubble gum. The photos are apparently in this week&#8217;s <em>New Scientist<\/em>; I usually receive my copy about a week after publication, so I&#8217;ll just have to be happy with the Beeb&#8217;s version for now.<br \/>\nNow here&#8217;s the part that will annoy all the ovulation experts out there. The doctor who filmed the ovulation wasn&#8217;t even trying &#8211; he was just perfoming a routine hysterectomy and happened to notice what was going on.<br \/>\nNow that&#8217;s what I call <del>dumb luck<\/del> <del>jammy<\/del> serendipity.<br \/>\nPreview still not working, Matt??!! Fingers crossed for correct formatting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not football. Although I&#8217;m enjoying that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}