{"id":1236,"date":"2021-09-24T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2021-09-24T12:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:13:22","slug":"this-new-covid-variant-ran-rampant-while-we-werent-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"This New COVID Variant Ran Rampant While We Weren\u2019t Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/new-covid-variant-a231-ran-rampant-while-we-werent-looking\">First identified in Uganda, the A.23.1 variant is now in 27 countries around the world. Experts told The Daily Beast how it was left unchecked\u2014and why we should watch it closely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First identified in Uganda, the A.23.1 variant is now in 27 countries around the world. Experts told The Daily Beast how it was left unchecked\u2014and why we should watch it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}