{"id":62,"date":"2008-02-21T09:23:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/62"},"modified":"2008-02-21T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T14:23:54","slug":"pz-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/62","title":{"rendered":"PZ in the Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers is complaining that <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2008\/02\/why_do_all_the_cartoonists_kee.php\">all the cartoonists are making fun of him<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Before I even knew he existed, I drew a cartoon depicting cephalopod torture.  It was a promotion for a talk on superconducting quantum interference devices, or SQUIDs.  (I got criticism that it&#8217;s more an octopus-looking thing in the vat, rather than a squid.  They&#8217;re physicists.  They don&#8217;t know any better.)<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/02\/squidsmall.jpg' title='squidsmall.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2008\/02\/squidsmall.jpg' alt='squidsmall.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the thank-you note for I got for this, the author encouraged me to do more cartoons on physics topics, since (he claimed) physicists generally don&#8217;t recognize themselves in cartoons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Pharyngula, PZ Myers is complaining that all the cartoonists are making fun of him It&#8217;s true. Before I even knew he existed, I drew a cartoon depicting cephalopod torture. It was a promotion for a talk on superconducting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/62\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon","category-physics","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}