{"id":19965,"date":"2015-03-03T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2015-03-18T01:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T05:51:32","slug":"%e3%80%8ascience-seance-and-red-herring-reflections-on-a-life-in-microbial-science%e3%80%8byk-chan-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=19965","title":{"rendered":"\u300aScience, S\u00e9ance and Red Herring &#8211; Reflections on a life in microbial science\u300bYK Chan (65)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 &#8211;\u00a0<em>Early and late Canadian life<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two historical world events dominated international news in the mid 1960s as the Vietnam War was at its peak, and the tsunami of the Chinese Cultural Revolution was rippling into Hong Kong.\u00a0 The latter\u2019s violent mass movement was sending Mainland Chinese youths and liberal intellectuals into an odyssey.\u00a0 Shortly afterwards, like several of my innocent Wah Yan classmates, I plunged into Winnipeg in this great north from the subtropical climate in Hong Kong to pursue post-secondary studies after matriculation.\u00a0 Unlike most of my matriculation science classmates, I had no intention or interest to enter medical school. \u00a0Since then, living in Canada has been offering me the taste of changing seasons as musically painted in Vivaldi&#8217;s four violin concerti.\u00a0 Perhaps, variety is the spice of life that embellishes it with brilliance and colours.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/1743-science-seance-and-red-herring-reflections-on-a-life-in-microbial-science-chan-yiu-kwok-65\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 &#8211;\u00a0Early and late Canadian life Two historical world events dominated international news in the mid 1960s as the Vietnam War was at its peak, and the tsunami of the Chinese Cultural Revolution was rippling into Hong Kong.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=19965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-19965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-ykchan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20014,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions\/20014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}