{"id":5012,"date":"2010-06-17T22:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T05:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2010-06-17T22:03:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T05:03:52","slug":"downshifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/downshifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Downshifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just counted:  this is my 1,540th blog post (counting my youthful efforts at <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/\">Preposterous Universe<\/a>.)  About two posts every three days, for a bit over six years.  Time for a break!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going on hiatus for a while.  While my normal mode of operation is to bounce happily between a dozen different activities, there&#8217;s a time for consolidation, and I&#8217;d like to concentrate on research for a while.  It&#8217;s been madcap travel ever since the book came out, which is finally done with, and I look forward to getting back into the groove of solving equations and writing papers.<\/p>\n<p>My hiatus plans aren&#8217;t very firm:  not sure whether it will be a month or a year.  It won&#8217;t be permanent, that&#8217;s for sure.  And I doubt it will even be very doctrinaire; if the mood strikes me, I won&#8217;t be reluctant to fire up the old laptop and post something on my beloved <em>Cosmic Variance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the rest of the crew (not to mention you commenters) will keep the fires burning here at the blog.  Maybe I&#8217;ll even leave a comment or two if one of those jokers says something totally outrageous.  Probably most people won&#8217;t even notice I&#8217;m gone.  (Otherwise I wouldn&#8217;t have to announce it, would I?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just counted: this is my 1,540th blog post (counting my youthful efforts at Preposterous Universe.) About two posts every three days, for a bit over six years. Time for a break! So I&#8217;m going on hiatus for a while. While my normal mode of operation is to bounce happily between a dozen different activities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","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=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}