{"id":3662,"date":"2018-09-07T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/random-quip-3421\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T23:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:25:29","slug":"random-quip-3421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-3421\/","title":{"rendered":"random quip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that\u2019s philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that\u2019s science. Three: Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy\u2019s Law, sometimes offset in part by Brewster\u2019s Factor: that\u2019s engineering. -Robert A. Heinlein-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that\u2019s philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that\u2019s science. Three: Awareness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by Murphy\u2019s Law, sometimes offset in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/random-quip-3421\/\" 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-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-X4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","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=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}