{"id":20005,"date":"2015-03-17T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=20005"},"modified":"2015-03-17T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T14:28:21","slug":"%e3%80%8ascience-seance-and-red-herring-reflections-on-a-life-in-microbial-science-ii%e3%80%8b__-yiu-kwok-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=20005","title":{"rendered":"\u300aScience, S\u00e9ance and Red Herring: Reflections on a life in microbial science II\u300b__ Yiu-Kwok Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Easing into Public Service in Scientific Research<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a public servant at the Research Branch of Agriculture Canada in Ottawa, I had little direct communication or contact with the public, which was handled mainly by management made up of administrators who had various previous research experiences.\u00a0 Because of bureaucratic reasons, I was soon sent to take full-time French classes to fulfill the bilingual requirement (at the intermediate level) of the specific position.\u00a0 Luckily, I satisfied this requirement on passing the first exam in the shortest possible time. &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/1756-science-seance-and-red-herring-reflections-on-a-life-in-microbial-science-ii-yiu-kwok-chan\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easing into Public Service in Scientific Research\u00a0 As a public servant at the Research Branch of Agriculture Canada in Ottawa, I had little direct communication or contact with the public, which was handled mainly by management made up of administrators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=20005\">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-20005","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\/20005","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=20005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20006,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions\/20006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}