{"id":608,"date":"2002-01-04T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-04T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=608"},"modified":"2002-01-04T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-04T21:08:00","slug":"ekpyrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/04\/17\/08\/ekpyrosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekpyrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new word for today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=922202\">Ekpyrosis<\/a>. Cosmologists and theoretical physicists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/bookshelf\/Leads01\/wheremath.html\">love making up<\/a> bizarre new bestiaries of particles and forces, so it figures they like making up words as well. That is, when they are not agonizing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/01\/01\/science\/01END.html?pagewanted=print\">imminent destruction of everything<\/a>. But sometimes there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/cgi-bin\/common\/printArticle.pl?path=\/news\/world\/2002\/01\/07\/FFX8TFIP3WC.html\">silver lining<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new word for today: Ekpyrosis. Cosmologists and theoretical physicists love making up bizarre new bestiaries of particles and forces, so it figures they like making up words as well. That is, when they&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}