{"id":1766,"date":"2009-12-17T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/17\/man_the_ramparts\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:06:07","slug":"man_the_ramparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/17\/man_the_ramparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Man the ramparts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grants.gov\/search\/search.do?mode=VIEW&#038;oppId=47843\">this NIH funding opportunity announcement<\/a> pop up in my RSS feed just now, and had a flashback to the joys of hall of residence<sup><a href=\"#fn8277018114f04ce5ca5113\">1<\/a><\/sup> dining during my first year of undergrad.<br \/>\nSpecifically, using a canteen tray<sup><a href=\"#fn15707586314f04ce5e1a0c2\">2<\/a><\/sup> to protect myself from the mashed potato being hurled by the drunken agrics<sup><a href=\"#fn5584335764f04ce5e1a0d5\">3<\/a><\/sup> at the next table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><sup>1<\/sup> or &#8220;dormitory&#8221;, for those of the North American persuasion<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><sup>2<\/sup> may or may not have also been appropriated for tobogganing down the big hill on the Town Moor in winter<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><sup>3<\/sup> Agricultural science students. Infamous at Newcastle University, and usually banned from the Student Union building by the end of the first week of term. The term &#8220;drunken agric&#8221; is actually a tautology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this NIH funding opportunity announcement pop up in my RSS feed just now, and had a flashback to the joys of hall of residence1 dining during my first year of undergrad. Specifically, using a canteen tray2 to protect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/17\/man_the_ramparts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}