{"id":3115,"date":"2021-12-01T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2021-12-01T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T07:59:26","slug":"the-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/12\/01\/the-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Omicron Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Omicron is a letter I&#8217;ve used so rarely that I don&#8217;t know how to pronounce it. Other Greek letters I&#8217;ve come across in sciencey stuff, but not omicron. And it wasn&#8217;t until this morning that I realised omicron is little O and omega is big O. Anyway, Greek letters make it sound as if the experts know what they are doing &#8211; which one the whole, as far as it <em>can<\/em> be known, the do. Also since it&#8217;s a world thing, Latin letters might be inappropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC_1028.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC_1028.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC_1028-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC_1028-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>TOTD: here&#8217;s a lonely Christmas tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron is a letter I&#8217;ve used so rarely that I don&#8217;t know how to pronounce it. Other Greek letters I&#8217;ve come across in sciencey stuff, but not omicron. And it wasn&#8217;t until this morning that I realised omicron is little O and omega is big O. Anyway, Greek letters make it sound as if the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/12\/01\/the-omicron-variant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Omicron Variant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}