{"id":12852,"date":"2016-05-19T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12852"},"modified":"2016-05-19T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:56:02","slug":"give-the-people-what-they-want-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/give-the-people-what-they-want-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the People What They Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And what they want, apparently, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/bigpicture\/\">470-page treatises<\/a> on the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of naturalism. To appear soon in the Newspaper of Record:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/bigpicture\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/best.png\" alt=\"NYT\" width=\"602\" height=\"1275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/best.png 602w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/best-142x300.png 142w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/best-483x1024.png 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy also to see great science books like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lab-Girl-Hope-Jahren\/dp\/1101874937\/\"><em>Lab Girl<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seven-Brief-Lessons-Physics-Rovelli\/dp\/0399184414\/\"><em>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics<\/em><\/a> make the NYT best-seller list. See? Science isn&#8217;t so scary at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And what they want, apparently, is 470-page treatises on the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of naturalism. To appear soon in the Newspaper of Record: Happy also to see great science books like Lab Girl and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics make the NYT best-seller list. See? Science isn&#8217;t so scary at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-picture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852","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=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}