{"id":943,"date":"2004-07-19T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/19\/and-the-moral-of-the-story-is\/"},"modified":"2004-07-19T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T19:26:31","slug":"and-the-moral-of-the-story-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/19\/and-the-moral-of-the-story-is","title":{"rendered":"And The Moral of the Story&nbsp;Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>THE eminent Russian physicist Andrei Linde once found himself on a long flight seated beside a businessman nose-deep in A Brief History of&nbsp;Time.<\/p>\n<p>Without having been introduced and before the usual small talk, they struck up a conversation about&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of it? Linde&nbsp;asked.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating, said the businessman. I cant put it&nbsp;down.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, thats interesting, the scientist replied. I found it quite heavy going in places and didnt fully understand some&nbsp;parts.<\/p>\n<p>At which point the businessman closed the book on his lap, leaned across with a compassionate smile, and said, Let me explain.\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stories like this keep me from saying everything I&nbsp;think\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.nap.edu\/books\/0309084105\/html\/251.html#pagetop\">source<\/a> (the above excerpt is actually a conflation of two sources, the first was from Sunday On Scotland, but I can\u2019t find a link that works. Anyway, their opening sentence was much better than the second source I found so I kept&nbsp;it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE eminent Russian physicist Andrei Linde once found himself on a long flight seated beside a businessman nose-deep in A Brief History of&nbsp;Time. Without having been introduced and before the usual small talk, they struck up a conversation about&nbsp;it. What do you think of it? Linde&nbsp;asked. Fascinating, said the businessman. I cant put it&nbsp;down. Oh, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/19\/and-the-moral-of-the-story-is\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAnd The Moral of the Story&nbsp;Is\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}