{"id":2270,"date":"2009-03-18T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/03\/18\/egg-in-a-box\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T04:44:25","slug":"egg-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/egg-in-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure is quiet around here.  I can&#8217;t blog much, as I&#8217;m in the final throes of book-writing.  So instead, let&#8217;s have some user-generated content!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a figure that I&#8217;ve drawn for use in my book.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/03\/egginabox-sm.gif' width='600' alt='egginabox-sm.gif' \/><\/p>\n<p>Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what the figure is supposed to be illustrating, and what lesson is purportedly conveyed.  (Hint:  that&#8217;s supposed to be an egg.)  How hard can it be?<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s a fruitful exercise, we can repeat for other figures, similarly inscrutable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure is quiet around here. I can&#8217;t blog much, as I&#8217;m in the final throes of book-writing. So instead, let&#8217;s have some user-generated content! Here is a figure that I&#8217;ve drawn for use in my book. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what the figure is supposed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","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=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}