{"id":103,"date":"2007-05-21T19:14:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T00:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2007-05-21T19:14:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T00:14:25","slug":"natural-non-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Natural non-selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always agreed with Grouch Marx about joining clubs. As Groucho said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has always seemed like a sound rule of thumb to me, but today I thought I would make an exception, and join the <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.gruts.com\/\">Friends of Charles Darwin<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, why not? I fit the bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.gruts.com\/join\/\">The only requirements are that you must have fully opposable thumbs [and] declare Charlie is my Darwin.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Affirmative on the first requirement, and as to the second, I hereby declare that Charlie is my Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, &#8220;It&#8217;s free, and entitles you to put the letters FCD after your name&#8221;. What could be better?<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to abandon my principles and join, only to find that the Friends refused to have me as a member! Apparently, I am that lowest of life forms: Spam. Every time I enter the secret code, designed to catch spam, I&#8217;m told I entered the code wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I failed some evolutionary test.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always agreed with Grouch Marx about joining clubs. As Groucho said: I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member This has always seemed like a sound rule of thumb to me, but today I thought I would make an exception, and join the Friends of Charles Darwin. Why? Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}