{"id":123,"date":"2008-05-08T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/08\/money_for_nothing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:56:10","slug":"money_for_nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/08\/money_for_nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Money for nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;and your chicks for free&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nBig money.  Big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/67261\">science<\/a> .  A good example of why we need to explain ourselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;These scientists could trim $10 million if they would just cut out some of the purple and blue spheres,&#8221; said Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), explaining that he understood the need for an abundance of reds and greens. &#8220;With all of those molecules and atoms going in every direction, the whole thing looks a bit unorganized, especially for science.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThis guy&#8217;s ignorance is shocking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Fifty billion dollars to buy atoms is too much,&#8221; Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) said. &#8220;Frankly, I don&#8217;t understand why they don&#8217;t just gather up all the leftover atoms in their test tubes and Bunsen burners. I think the scientists should have to use those up before getting new ones.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/im_brooks\">Ian<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;and your chicks for free&#8221;. Big money. Big science . A good example of why we need to explain ourselves: &#8220;These scientists could trim $10 million if they would just cut out some of the purple and blue spheres,&#8221; said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/08\/money_for_nothing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}