{"id":15,"date":"2008-03-31T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-03-31T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:08:02","slug":"it-could-be-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"It Could Be Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times reported this week that we could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/29\/science\/29collider.html\">sucked into a black hole<\/a>.  Well, they didn&#8217;t really report that, but they did report on a lawsuit to stop a particle accelerator in Geneva that is about to become operational.  The plaintiffs believe that the scientists resopsible have not done their research carefully and that they may be underestimating the risk that their project will spawn a black hole that will devour the earth, and possibly the entire universe.<\/p>\n<p>That money you lost in the stock market?  Won&#8217;t matter.  Obama versus Hillary?  Not to worry.  You overdue mortgage payment?  Who cares.   This blog?  Poof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times reported this week that we could be sucked into a black hole. Well, they didn&#8217;t really report that, but they did report on a lawsuit to stop a particle accelerator in Geneva that is about to become operational. The plaintiffs believe that the scientists resopsible have not done their research carefully and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-picture","category-smart-people","category-stupid-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spitnails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}