{"id":296,"date":"2004-11-01T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/the-conjugation-of-the-paramecium\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T05:01:00","slug":"the-conjugation-of-the-paramecium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/01\/the-conjugation-of-the-paramecium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conjugation of the Paramecium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poems\/poems.cfm?prmID=1546\">Muriel Rukeyser<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> This has nothing<br \/>to do with<br \/>propagating<\/p>\n<p>The species<br \/>is continued<br \/>as so many are<br \/>(among the smaller creatures)<br \/>by fission<\/p>\n<p>(and this species<br \/>is very small<br \/>next in order to<br \/>the amoeba, the beginning one)<\/p>\n<p>The paramecium<br \/>achieves, then,<br \/>immortality<br \/>by dividing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/protist.i.hosei.ac.jp\/PDB\/Images\/Subjects\/Sexual_reproductionE.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/paramecium.jpg\" \/><\/a>But when<br \/>the paramecium<br \/>desires renewal<br \/>strength another joy<br \/>this is what<br \/>the paramecium does:<\/p>\n<p>The paramecium<br \/>lies down beside<br \/>another paramecium<\/p>\n<p>Slowly inexplicably<br \/>the exchange<br \/>takes place<br \/>in which<br \/>some bits<br \/>of the nucleus of each<br \/>are exchanged<\/p>\n<p>for some bits<br \/>of the nucleus<br \/>of the other<\/p>\n<p>This is called<br \/>the conjugation of the paramecium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  What, you were expecting something about the election?  Don&#8217;t forget to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Muriel Rukeyser. This has nothingto do withpropagating The speciesis continuedas so many are(among the smaller creatures)by fission (and this speciesis very smallnext in order tothe amoeba, the beginning one) The parameciumachieves, then,immortalityby dividing But whenthe parameciumdesires renewalstrength another joythis is whatthe paramecium does: The parameciumlies down besideanother paramecium Slowly inexplicablythe exchangetakes placein whichsome bitsof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}