{"id":2926,"date":"2017-10-28T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/2017\/10\/28\/random-quip-2736\/"},"modified":"2017-10-28T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T15:28:16","slug":"random-quip-2736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-2736\/","title":{"rendered":"random quip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars \u2014 mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is &#8220;mere&#8221;. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination \u2014 stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern \u2014 of which I am a part&#8230;. What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. -Richard Feynman-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars \u2014 mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is &#8220;mere&#8221;. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination \u2014 stuck on this carousel my little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-2736\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">random quip<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-Lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}