{"id":113,"date":"2006-03-14T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T13:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/14\/nerds-nerds-nerds\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T13:07:01","slug":"nerds-nerds-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/14\/nerds-nerds-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-209d8e68561b8d6388131b797424624f-sm_boda-einstein1905-l.jpg\" alt=\"i-209d8e68561b8d6388131b797424624f-sm_boda-einstein1905-l.jpg\" \/>I&#8217;m with <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/nosenada\/2006\/03\/nerds_put_down_the_bop_gun_and.php\">Kevin<\/a> on this one: this whole &#8220;Pi Day&#8221; thing is just too dorky for words (I&#8217;m looking at you, <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/03\/13\/what-will-you-be-doing-on-the-big-day\/\">Clifford<\/a>&#8230;) <\/p>\n<p>However, as noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/inverse.physics.berkeley.edu\/archives\/001630.html\">Arcane Gazebo<\/a>, it&#8217;s also Einstein&#8217;s birthday, which is an occasion much more worth commemorating. So celebrate as the man himself would have: invent a new theory of the universe while working at a boring and unchallenging job because you can&#8217;t get an academic position. Or, possibly, divorce your wife and marry your cousin. It&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m with Kevin on this one: this whole &#8220;Pi Day&#8221; thing is just too dorky for words (I&#8217;m looking at you, Clifford&#8230;) However, as noted by Arcane Gazebo, it&#8217;s also Einstein&#8217;s birthday, which is an occasion much more worth commemorating. So celebrate as the man himself would have: invent a new theory of the universe&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/14\/nerds-nerds-nerds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}