{"id":5035,"date":"2009-02-06T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/no-shit-how-i-lost-my-one-of-a-kind-collection-and-my-girlfriend-too\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:17:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:17:59","slug":"no-shit-how-i-lost-my-one-of-a-kind-collection-and-my-girlfriend-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/no-shit-how-i-lost-my-one-of-a-kind-collection-and-my-girlfriend-too\/","title":{"rendered":"No shit: how I lost my one-of-a-kind collection and my girlfriend, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Higher Education Supplement: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=405267\">No shit: how I lost my one-of-a-kind collection and my girlfriend, too<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For his PhD, Daniel Bennett had built a unique set of faecal samples from a rare lizard. When it was destroyed, he really hit bottom<\/p>\n<p>To some people it might have been just a bag of lizard shit, but to me it represented seven years of painstaking work searching the rainforest with a team of reformed poachers to find the faeces of one of the world&#8217;s largest, rarest and most mysterious lizards. I didn&#8217;t realise just how much my bag of lizard shit meant to me until it was &#8220;accidentally&#8221; incinerated at the University of Leeds early in the third year of my PhD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Higher Education Supplement: No shit: how I lost my one-of-a-kind collection and my girlfriend, too For his PhD, Daniel Bennett had built a unique set of faecal samples from a rare lizard. When it was destroyed, he really hit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/no-shit-how-i-lost-my-one-of-a-kind-collection-and-my-girlfriend-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[1288933,1288918],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-academics","tag-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}