{"id":11761,"date":"2014-03-01T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11761"},"modified":"2014-03-01T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T02:39:14","slug":"decennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/decennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Decennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost forgot again &#8212; the leap-year thing always gets me. But I&#8217;ve now officially been blogging for ten years. Over 2,000 posts, generating over 57,000 comments. I don&#8217;t have accurate stats because I&#8217;ve moved around a bit, but on the order of ten million visits. Thanks for coming!<\/p>\n<p>Nostalgia buffs are free to check out the archives (by category or month) via buttons on the sidebar, or see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/greatest-hits\/\">greatest hits<\/a> page. Here are some of my personal favorites from each of the past ten years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2004: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/27\/the-arrow-of-time\/\">The Arrow of Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2005: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/21\/three-and-im-under-the-table\/\">Three and I&#8217;m Under the Table<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2006: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/quantum-interrogation\/\">Quantum Interrogation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2007: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/the-alternative-science-respectability-checklist\/\">The Alternative-Science Respectability Checklist<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2008: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/23\/spontaneous-social-symmetry-breaking\/\">Spontaneous Social Symmetry Breaking<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2009: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/rules-for-time-travelers\/\">Rules for Time Travelers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2010: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/the-laws-underlying-the-physics-of-everyday-life-are-completely-understood\/\">The Laws of Physics Underlying Everyday Life Are Completely Understood<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/seriously-the-laws-underlying-the-physics-of-everyday-life-really-are-completely-understood\/\">followup<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/one-last-stab\/\">another<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>2011: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/dark-energy-faq\/\">Dark Energy FAQ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2012: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/does-this-ontological-commitment-make-me-look-fat\/\">Does This Ontological Commitment Make Me Look Fat?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2013: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/how-quantum-field-theory-becomes-effective\/\">How Quantum Field Theory Becomes &#8220;Effective&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to the next decade!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost forgot again &#8212; the leap-year thing always gets me. But I&#8217;ve now officially been blogging for ten years. Over 2,000 posts, generating over 57,000 comments. I don&#8217;t have accurate stats because I&#8217;ve moved around a bit, but on the order of ten million visits. Thanks for coming! Nostalgia buffs are free to check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11773,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions\/11773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}