{"id":89,"date":"2008-03-14T08:59:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T08:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/03\/14\/on_the_difference\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T08:59:17","slug":"on_the_difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/03\/14\/on_the_difference\/","title":{"rendered":"On the difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/the_difference.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen something unusual happens, perhaps like for example (completely at random) one&#8217;s weblog post at <em>NN<\/em> getting 20 comments, an ordinary person might say, or think, &#8220;Cool!  Lots of traffic!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nA scientist, on the other hand, is more likely to rub his beard and say<br \/>\n&#8220;Hmm, I can think of an experiment. . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n(Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/242\/\">xkcd<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When something unusual happens, perhaps like for example (completely at random) one&#8217;s weblog post at NN getting 20 comments, an ordinary person might say, or think, &#8220;Cool! Lots of traffic!&#8221;. A scientist, on the other hand, is more likely to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/03\/14\/on_the_difference\/\">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-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}