{"id":25422,"date":"2010-05-07T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/05\/07\/i-shall-be-the-first-to-join-y\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T11:25:23","slug":"i-shall-be-the-first-to-join-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/i-shall-be-the-first-to-join-y\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I shall be the first to join your second expedition!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such are the words uttered by a young physical anthropologist in response to Sir Edmund Hillary&#8217;s request that he join the search for Yeti on the fridgid snow clad slopes of Mount Everest.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOr so I&#8217;m told.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve hardly ever <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/08\/the_truth_about_bigfoot.php\">blogged<\/a> about it, I am keenly interested in the topic of cryptozoology which, to me, has two distinct aspects:  1) The scientific, realistic search for previously unknown organisms and 2) the study of OTHER people who are busy in the unscientific, fantasy-riddled &#8220;search&#8221; (read, often, faking) of so called unknown non-existent organisms.<\/p>\n<p>But who cares what I think.  You need to tune in to this evening&#8217;s episode of Skeptically Speaking to hear commentary by Blake Smith and Karen Stollznow, of MonsterTalk.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticallyspeaking.com\/episodes\/58-cryptozoology-101\">Details here.<\/a>  Be there, don&#8217;t be square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such are the words uttered by a young physical anthropologist in response to Sir Edmund Hillary&#8217;s request that he join the search for Yeti on the fridgid snow clad slopes of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4068],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6C2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}