{"id":14855,"date":"2020-08-21T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2020\/08\/21\/gazumped\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:59","slug":"gazumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2020\/08\/21\/gazumped\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazumped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>This always happened when I was writing novels, too: Just when I&#8217;d use an idea in a story, it&#8217;d show up in the news.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Likewise with <a href=\"https:\/\/hame.land\/life-on-vega.html\">my comic<\/a>: I <em>just<\/em> posted a sequence about the characters releasing bio-engineered mosquitoes, and this morning I read this: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.com\/condition\/infectious-diseases\/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes?utm_source=digg\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.health.com\/condition\/infectious-diseases\/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes?utm_source=digg\">750 Million Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are Being Released in Florida<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figure class=\"wp-image-2291\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1761\/vega2-15-02-671.png.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, Life, come up with your own storylines!<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Actually, the bit in my comic was inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/alpha-gal-syndrome\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20428608\">a real thing that&#8217;s happening with ticks<\/a>. I guess everything <em>is<\/em> a remix.)<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This always happened when I was writing novels, too: Just when I&#8217;d use an idea in a story, it&#8217;d show up in the news. Likewise with my comic: I just posted a sequence about the characters releasing bio-engineered mosquitoes, and this morning I read this: &#8220;750 Million Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Are Being Released in Florida&#8220;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}