{"id":820,"date":"2024-01-28T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=820"},"modified":"2024-01-28T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:16:56","slug":"objective-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Objective Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baby, I love you.<\/p>\n<p>This all began two billion years ago<br \/>\nwhen our profligate prokaryote ancestors<br \/>\nplayed messy gene-swapping games of<br \/>\nconjugation, transformation and transduction.<br \/>\nThat works great, especially if you need to<br \/>\nquickly evolve resistance to antibiotics,<br \/>\nbut it doesn\u2019t lend itself to stability,<br \/>\nso those ephemeral unicells never had time<br \/>\nto grow differentiated colonies.<br \/>\nThat required also a little cell wall strength,<br \/>\nso eukaryotes grabbed that niche right away<br \/>\nand 1.2 billion years ago it was a eukaryote<br \/>\nwho invented true sex.<\/p>\n<p>Baby, I love you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>10 June 2020<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby, I love you. This all began two billion years ago when our profligate prokaryote ancestors played messy gene-swapping games of conjugation, transformation and transduction. That works great, especially if you need to quickly evolve resistance to antibiotics, but it doesn\u2019t lend itself to stability, so those ephemeral unicells never<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=820\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}