{"id":2182,"date":"2009-02-02T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/02\/02\/im-pretty-sure-this-is-what-that-official-at-nsf-was-watching\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:37:30","slug":"im-pretty-sure-this-is-what-that-official-at-nsf-was-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/im-pretty-sure-this-is-what-that-official-at-nsf-was-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Pretty Sure This Is What That Official at NSF Was Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=1417#comic\"><img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/02\/20090202.jpg' alt='20090202.jpg' \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I will just mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=1417#comic\">this guy<\/a> doesn&#8217;t really look like Brian Greene.  And that I&#8217;m disappointed the word &#8220;heterotic&#8221; couldn&#8217;t be worked in there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And also that ordinary one-dimensional strings don&#8217;t form knots in higher dimensions of space, so extra-dimensional bondage requires extended objects.  So really the guy in the cartoon should probably be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Polchinski\">Dr. Polchinski<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will just mention that this guy doesn&#8217;t really look like Brian Greene. And that I&#8217;m disappointed the word &#8220;heterotic&#8221; couldn&#8217;t be worked in there somewhere. And also that ordinary one-dimensional strings don&#8217;t form knots in higher dimensions of space, so extra-dimensional bondage requires extended objects. So really the guy in the cartoon should probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","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=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}