{"id":1773,"date":"2008-07-10T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/07\/10\/quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T20:54:07","slug":"quote-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/quote-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Luckily the scientists will not mind foolish questions for a few reasons. First of all, they are used to thinking of themselves as pretty smart and the people questioning them as, umm, not so smart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/07\/business\/media\/07askthetimes.html?pagewanted=2&amp;ei=5124&amp;en=37868cabe301db7a&amp;ex=1373083200&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">Dennis Overbye<\/a>, answering questions in a wide-ranging <em>New York Times<\/em> &#8220;Talk to the Newsroom&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily the scientists will not mind foolish questions for a few reasons. First of all, they are used to thinking of themselves as pretty smart and the people questioning them as, umm, not so smart. &#8212; Dennis Overbye, answering questions in a wide-ranging New York Times &#8220;Talk to the Newsroom&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}