{"id":7923,"date":"2012-01-13T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7923"},"modified":"2012-01-13T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:59:12","slug":"good-newsbad-news-nobel-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/good-newsbad-news-nobel-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News\/Bad News: Nobel Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news about winning the Nobel Prize: you get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleyside.com\/2011\/10\/04\/new-nobel-winner-gets-real-prize-a-special-parking-permit\/\">better parking<\/a> on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news: Sheldon Cooper makes fun of you on national TV.<\/p>\n<p>Of course you don&#8217;t need to watch the ceremonies to learn what all the scientists are wearing this year. I am reliably informed that a regular tuxedo is not good enough; you need to go full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/award_ceremonies\/dresscode\/\">white tie and tails<\/a>. (Interestingly, the Peace Prize is more casual; black tie or &#8220;national costume&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelpeaceprize.org\/en_GB\/about_peaceprize\/dress-code\/\">perfectly acceptable<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news about winning the Nobel Prize: you get better parking on campus. The bad news: Sheldon Cooper makes fun of you on national TV. Of course you don&#8217;t need to watch the ceremonies to learn what all the scientists are wearing this year. I am reliably informed that a regular tuxedo is 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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","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=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}