{"id":8455,"date":"2012-06-29T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2012-06-29T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T01:43:30","slug":"quote-of-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/quote-of-the-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, anyone remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/05\/01\/daily-show-explains-the-lhc\/\">lawsuits<\/a> that were trying to shut down the LHC? They were <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/08\/31\/5014771-collider-court-case-finally-closed?lite\">finally dismissed by a federal appeals court<\/a> in 2010, with the following concise summary of the situation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Accordingly, the alleged injury, destruction of the earth, is in no way attributable to the U.S. government&#8217;s failure to draft an environmental impact statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, maybe we&#8217;re just lucky enough to live in the branch of the wave function where the disaster didn&#8217;t happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, anyone remember the lawsuits that were trying to shut down the LHC? They were finally dismissed by a federal appeals court in 2010, with the following concise summary of the situation: Accordingly, the alleged injury, destruction of the earth, is in no way attributable to the U.S. government&#8217;s failure to draft an environmental impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higgs","category-humor","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","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=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}