{"id":1543,"date":"2008-01-09T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/01\/09\/again-with-the-de-lurking\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T20:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T01:14:53","slug":"again-with-the-de-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/again-with-the-de-lurking\/","title":{"rendered":"Again with the De-Lurking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting is slow, partly because of other commitments, and also because my co-bloggers are poopyheads.  So this is as good a time as any to resurrect our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/09\/21\/lurker-day\/\">occasional<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/01\/10\/de-lurker-week\/\">de-lurking<\/a> threads, in which loyal readers who tend not to comment on ordinary posts can peek their heads up and introduce themselves.  If you see your shadow, it&#8217;s six more weeks of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, there are great things ahead, including some potentially very cool guest blogging (you know who you are).  And you are welcome to take the opportunity here to advertise important events or links that you think people should know about &#8212; for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/disorderedcosmos.blogspot.com\/\">Chanda<\/a> points us to the 2008 joint annual meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsbp.org\/\">National Society for Black Physicists<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicphysicists.org\/\">National Society of Hispanic Physicists<\/a> to be held in Washington DC on February 20-24, 2008.  And I can point you to the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/categoricallynot.com\/upcomingevents.html\">Categorically Not<\/a> in Santa Monica on January 27, featuring what promises to be a lively discussion on Hollywood Physics.  Stuff like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting is slow, partly because of other commitments, and also because my co-bloggers are poopyheads. So this is as good a time as any to resurrect our occasional de-lurking threads, in which loyal readers who tend not to comment on ordinary posts can peek their heads up and introduce themselves. If you see your shadow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}