{"id":1540,"date":"2010-12-02T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:57:30","slug":"human-microbiota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/12\/02\/human-microbiota\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Microbiota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/101124\/full\/468492a.html\">article in\u00a0Nature<\/a> on the human microbiota &#8212; &#8220;the vast population of microorganisms that live in and on the human body.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I can think of a theological angle at the moment, but this description is oddly compelling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An infant&#8217;s first exposure to microbes is at birth, as it slides out of the sterile womb, slurping up and smearing itself with its mother&#8217;s vaginal fluids and faeces. From then on, life is one long microbial onslaught. New bacteria, viruses and fungi colonize every exposed organ \u2014 skin, eyes, lungs, gastrointestinal (GI) tract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes you think a bit differently about that face in the mirror:\u00a0 a walking, talking universe of germs.\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article in\u00a0Nature on the human microbiota &#8212; &#8220;the vast population of microorganisms that live in and on the human body.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I can think of a theological angle at the moment, but this description is oddly compelling: An infant&#8217;s first exposure to microbes is at birth, as it slides out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-oQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}