{"id":5938,"date":"2011-12-27T23:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?page_id=5938"},"modified":"2011-12-27T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T06:02:31","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original maintainer of this blog was <a href=\"http:\/\/dabacon.org\">Dave Bacon<\/a>, who reigned as Quantum Pontiff for many years until <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4895\">retiring<\/a>\u00a0in 2011 (that was way before retiring from pontifical positions was a cool thing to do.)<br \/>\nFrom 2011 until 2018, chaos reigned, and a Pontiffical triple ran the party:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/researcher.ibm.com\/researcher\/view.php?person=us-bennetc\">Charles Bennett<\/a>\u00a0(IBM)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.usyd.edu.au\/~sflammia\/\">Steve Flammia<\/a>\u00a0(Sydney)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/~aram\/\">Aram Harrow<\/a> (MIT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/\">some other group blogs<\/a>, they didn&#8217;t pretend to be a single person, and sparked controversy at every turn.<br \/>\nIn 2018, a fit of quantum recurrence occurred, and the former pontiff decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=11903\">un-retire<\/a> demoting the pontiffical triple to a cardinal set.<br \/>\nWe blog about the wondrous quantum world in which we live.\u00a0 None of what we said should be taken as anything beyond our personal opinions and\/or the opinion of Dave&#8217;s dog Imma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original maintainer of this blog was Dave Bacon, who reigned as Quantum Pontiff for many years until retiring\u00a0in 2011 (that was way before retiring from pontifical positions was a cool thing to do.) From 2011 until 2018, chaos reigned, and a Pontiffical triple ran the party: Charles Bennett\u00a0(IBM) Steve Flammia\u00a0(Sydney) Aram Harrow (MIT) Unlike &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/about-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5938","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}