{"id":612,"date":"2004-04-09T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T18:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=612"},"modified":"2004-04-09T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T18:17:31","slug":"a-koan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/04\/09\/a-koan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Koan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Email from a master:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two theorists were walking through the forest of quantum mechanics.There they came across an ATM machine.<br \/>\nIn front of the ATM machine was a long line of experimentalists.<br \/>\nThe student asked,<br \/>\n&#8220;Surely master an ATM machine deep in the forest of Quantum Mechanics must have an incredible surcharge.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe master,<br \/>\n&#8220;Can the hive steal money from a single bee?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe student<br \/>\n&#8220;Without the bees, there is no hive.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe master,<br \/>\n&#8220;Without the hive, there are no bees&#8221;<br \/>\nThe student<br \/>\n&#8220;This honey is bitter&#8221;<br \/>\nThe master,<br \/>\n&#8220;Fear not, we are not bees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email from a master: Two theorists were walking through the forest of quantum mechanics.There they came across an ATM machine. In front of the ATM machine was a long line of experimentalists. The student asked, &#8220;Surely master an ATM machine deep in the forest of Quantum Mechanics must have an incredible surcharge.&#8221; The master, &#8220;Can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/04\/09\/a-koan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Koan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}