{"id":2323,"date":"2009-04-20T17:33:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/04\/20\/stephen-hawking-hospitalized\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:33:32","slug":"stephen-hawking-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/stephen-hawking-hospitalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking Hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/apr\/21\/stephen-hawkings-illness\">Stephen Hawking has been rushed to the hospital<\/a> after falling very ill.  He has been struggling with a chest infection for several weeks, and has had to cancel some public appearances.  A press officer from Cambridge University later added that he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2009\/04\/20\/hawking-stephen-ill.html\">improved<\/a>, and is now in comfortable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Not much to add, except that we all hope for a speedy recovery, and that is back writing papers and giving lectures before too long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gXTqqeOkfGj1m48YIY_JoiFK-q3wD97MRCP03\">Associated Press<\/a>, reporting from another statement released by Cambridge, says Hawking is expected to make a complete recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, Stephen Hawking has been rushed to the hospital after falling very ill. He has been struggling with a chest infection for several weeks, and has had to cancel some public appearances. A press officer from Cambridge University later added that he has improved, and is now in comfortable condition. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}