{"id":4244,"date":"2010-12-04T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/4244"},"modified":"2010-12-04T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T16:53:10","slug":"idenwe-are-bacteria-all-the-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/12\/04\/idenwe-are-bacteria-all-the-way-down\/","title":{"rendered":"We are bacteria all the way down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Burkhard Bilger&#8217;s savvy report on fermentation and underground food culture in the U.S., sadly <a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/11\/22\/101122fa_fact_bilger>available only as an abstract<\/a> to non-subscribers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Modern hygiene has prevented countless colds, fevers, and other ailments, but its central premise is hopelessly outdated. The human body isn&#8217;t besieged [by microbes]; it&#8217;s saturated, infused with microbial life at every level. &#8220;There is no such thing as an individual,&#8221; Lynn Margulis, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, told me recently. &#8220;What we see as animals are partly just integrated sets of bacteria.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Burkhard Bilger&#8217;s savvy report on fermentation and underground food culture in the U.S., sadly available only as an abstract to non-subscribers: Modern hygiene has prevented countless colds, fevers, and other ailments, but its central premise is hopelessly outdated. The human body isn&#8217;t besieged [by microbes]; it&#8217;s saturated, infused with microbial life at every level&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}