{"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 Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>THE emi\u00adnent Russ\u00adian physi\u00adcist Andrei Linde once found him\u00adself on a long flight seat\u00aded beside a busi\u00adness\u00adman nose-deep in A Brief His\u00adto\u00adry of Time.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00adout hav\u00ading been intro\u00adduced and before the usu\u00adal small talk, they struck up a con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think of it?\u201d Linde asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading,\u201d said the busi\u00adness\u00adman. \u201cI can\u2019t put it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, that\u2019s inter\u00adest\u00ading,\u201d the sci\u00aden\u00adtist replied. \u201cI found it quite heavy going in places and didn\u2019t ful\u00adly under\u00adstand some parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At which point the busi\u00adness\u00adman closed the book on his lap, leaned across with a com\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adate smile, and said, \u201cLet me explain.\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sto\u00adries like this keep me from say\u00ading every\u00adthing I think\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.nap.edu\/books\/0309084105\/html\/251.html#pagetop\">source<\/a> (the above excerpt is actu\u00adal\u00adly a con\u00adfla\u00adtion of two sources, the first was from Sun\u00adday On Scot\u00adland, but I can\u2019t find a link that works. Any\u00adway, their open\u00ading sen\u00adtence was much bet\u00adter than the sec\u00adond source I found so I kept it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE emi\u00adnent Russ\u00adian physi\u00adcist Andrei Linde once found him\u00adself on a long flight seat\u00aded beside a busi\u00adness\u00adman nose-deep in A Brief His\u00adto\u00adry of Time. With\u00adout hav\u00ading been intro\u00adduced and before the usu\u00adal small talk, they struck up a con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion about it. \u201cWhat do you think of it?\u201d Linde asked. \u201cFas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading,\u201d said the busi\u00adness\u00adman. \u201cI can\u2019t \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/19\/and-the-moral-of-the-story-is\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAnd The Moral of the Sto\u00adry 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}