{"id":2,"date":"2006-10-28T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T03:50:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-12T21:32:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T04:32:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog&#8217;s owner (i.e. me) is an aspiring escapee from two decades in the IT field, having finally finished a long-delayed degree in Microbiology in the Summer of 2007.<br \/>\nThis blog is an outlet for the owner&#8217;s more nerdy interests, particularly <em>non-medical<\/em> (Applied Environmental and Industrial &#8211; when I think of &#8220;Food Microbiology&#8221;, I am <strong>not<\/strong> thinking of spinach) microbiology, computer-nerdity, and general science.  Of course, it&#8217;s a &#8220;personal&#8221; blog, so bear in mind that, for example, I&#8217;m willing here to wildly speculate about things as I go along, much different from a more formal type of publication.<br \/>\nThis means that if you are a potential future employer, scientific-paper reviewer, or otherwise might be someone who might someday encounter me in a more &#8220;serious&#8221; venue, you should bear this in mind.  Just because I might write something like &#8220;I think this microbe might be something carried here by a martian meteorite because I swear it abducted me last night and took me up into a teeny-tiny flying saucer&#8221; here is not an indication of what might appear in a scientific paper I may author someday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog&#8217;s owner (i.e. me) is an aspiring escapee from two decades in the IT field, having finally finished a long-delayed degree in Microbiology in the Summer of 2007. This blog is an outlet for the owner&#8217;s more nerdy interests, particularly non-medical (Applied Environmental and Industrial &#8211; when I think of &#8220;Food Microbiology&#8221;, I am &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}