{"id":755,"date":"2004-12-10T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=755"},"modified":"2004-12-10T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T18:19:33","slug":"stringing-us-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/12\/10\/stringing-us-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Stringing Us Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the a New York times <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/07\/science\/07stri.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> on the first string revolution<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., described it this way: &#8220;String theory is not like anything else ever discovered. It is an incredible panoply of ideas about math and physics, so vast, so rich you could say almost anything about it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And thus spoke Voltaire:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The way to become boring is to say everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the a New York times article on the first string revolution Dr. Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., described it this way: &#8220;String theory is not like anything else ever discovered. It is an incredible panoply of ideas about math and physics, so vast, so rich you could say &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/12\/10\/stringing-us-along\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stringing Us Along&#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":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}