{"id":3688,"date":"2009-11-03T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2009-11-03T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T18:01:54","slug":"living-the-relativistic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/11\/03\/living-the-relativistic-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Relativistic Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer I started running a not so insignificant amount: 6 miles in the morning on the weekdays and 10 to 15 miles on the weekends (insert commenter telling me why this is wrong.)  So, one or two or more hours out running around beautiful Seattle (My favorite route is Queen Anne to Fremont to Ballard Locks, around Magnolia and back up Queen Anne.)  Which brings us to the subject of time.  During my runs it seems that my watch, which runs using mechanical energy, decided that it had a new setting: relativistic mode.  In other words I&#8217;d go out and run for two hours, and when I got back my watch would be  ten minutes behind the clock at my home.  At first I thought, cool!  I get to experience time dilation in person!  And then I thought: boy I&#8217;m fast.  And then finally: I&#8217;m always late.<br \/>\nDamn you relativity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer I started running a not so insignificant amount: 6 miles in the morning on the weekdays and 10 to 15 miles on the weekends (insert commenter telling me why this is wrong.) So, one or two or more hours out running around beautiful Seattle (My favorite route is Queen Anne to Fremont &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/11\/03\/living-the-relativistic-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living the Relativistic Life&#8221;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,53,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-deep-end","category-physics","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}