{"id":236,"date":"2006-07-03T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:45:14","slug":"quotation-of-the-millennium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Quotation of the Millennium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proteinwisdom.com\/index.php\/weblog\/entry\/20621\/#178998\">comment<\/a> by &#8216;nnivea&#8217; on <em>Protein Wisdom<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life.  For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system.  When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn\u2019t need its brain anymore so it eats it!  (It\u2019s rather like getting tenure.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">(Daniel Dennett, <em>Consciousness Explained<\/em>, 177)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a comment by &#8216;nnivea&#8217; on Protein Wisdom: The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn\u2019t need its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}