{"id":9432,"date":"2006-01-10T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/01\/10\/fine-tune-your-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2006-01-10T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T19:29:26","slug":"fine-tune-your-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/10\/fine-tune-your-cosmic-variance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine-tune your Cosmic Variance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/mefi\/30537\">MetaFilter<\/a> doesn&#8217;t like us.  At least, some of us.  Twenty percent of us, to be specific.  They want to know how to read CV while &#8212; horror of horrors &#8212; excluding one of the authors.  (Thanks,  caek, for being too polite to say which one of us it is!)<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it&#8217;s quite possible; WordPress is smarter than you think.  You all know that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?author=2\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?author=2<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>gives you nothing but posts by me.  What you might not know, but have undoubtedly been wondering about, is that either<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?author=-2\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?author=-2<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?author=3,4,5,6\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?author=3,4,5,6<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>will give you posts by everyone <strong>but<\/strong> me.  The second version is probably better if you just enjoy the posts by Clifford, Risa, JoAnne, and Mark; the first one is better if you like posts by almost anyone conceivable except for me, so that if we ever add authors numbered 7 and above you won&#8217;t be left out.  (Author number 1 is so mysterious that they don&#8217;t exist.)<\/p>\n<p>And it works for RSS feeds, as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/feed\/?author=-2\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/feed\/?author=-2<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>lets you enjoy Sean-free blogging from the convenience of your newsreader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at MetaFilter doesn&#8217;t like us. At least, some of us. Twenty percent of us, to be specific. They want to know how to read CV while &#8212; horror of horrors &#8212; excluding one of the authors. (Thanks, caek, for being too polite to say which one of us it is!) Turns out it&#8217;s quite [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432","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=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}