{"id":1181,"date":"2004-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2018-08-13T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:53:41","slug":"1181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/22\/1181\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence?  I Dare Not Speculate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two seemingly unrelated events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Less than a week ago, physicist Stephen Hawking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/07\/15\/nhole15.xml&#038;sSheet=\/portal\/2004\/07\/15\/ixportal.html\" target=\"_new\">maybe things can escape from black holes after all<\/a>.\n<li>Today, my Guinness bar towel arrives, over a year after I completed the survey for which I should have gotten it and long after &#8220;Guinness Bar Towel&#8221; became a Fark punchline:\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/guinnesstowel.jpg\" height=\"400\" alt=\"The Fabled Guinness Bar Towel\"><\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps I have discovered the inspiration for Hawking&#8217;s sudden reversal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, read this satire: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshax.com\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=690\" target=\"_new\">Bush Labels Stephen Hawking a Flip-Flopper<\/a>.  The same joke crossed my mind, but I am too late to capitalize on&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two seemingly unrelated events: Less than a week ago, physicist Stephen Hawking maybe things can escape from black holes after all. Today, my Guinness bar towel arrives, over a year after I completed the survey for which I should have gotten it and long after &#8220;Guinness Bar Towel&#8221; became a Fark punchline: Perhaps I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23040,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/23040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}