{"id":43235,"date":"2011-08-20T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13615"},"modified":"2011-08-20T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T16:03:07","slug":"the-rap-guide-to-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/20\/the-rap-guide-to-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The rap guide to evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/04\/darwin-got-it-going-on\/\">Darwin Got It Going On<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The lyrics are, for the most part, witty, sophisticated and scientifically accurate; and they lack the earnest defensiveness that sometimes haunts lectures on evolution. I spotted one or two small slips \u2014 a confusion of the praying mantis with the Australian redback spider (oh no!) \u2014 and there are a few moments of poetic license that a po-faced pedant might object to. Otherwise, it\u2019s pretty rigorous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/EXbUlN29ug0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin Got It Going On:<br \/>\nThe lyrics are, for the most part, witty, sophisticated and scientifically accurate; and they lack the earnest defensiveness that sometimes haunts lectures on evolution. I spotted one or two small slips \u2014 a confusion of the pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1693],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-rap-guide-to-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43337,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43235\/revisions\/43337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}