{"id":194,"date":"2006-04-17T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/17\/the-string-theory-diet\/"},"modified":"2006-04-17T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T11:55:08","slug":"the-string-theory-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/17\/the-string-theory-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"The String Theory Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unhappy with the way you look? Feel like you&#8217;re carrying around some large extra dimensions? Want to compactify your manifold before the summer conference season gets here?<\/p>\n<p>If you answered &#8220;Yes!&#8221; to any of those questions, then you&#8217;re ready for the String Theory Diet!<\/p>\n<p>Each rich, satisfying meals of eleven-dimensional noodles, and watch the pounds melt away! You&#8217;ll lose weight so fast, your friends will think that gravity is leaking off your brane and affecting them more than you! You&#8217;ll be your own walking hierarchy problem!<\/p>\n<p>You can lose as much as one Planck mass per Planck time <i>(individual loss rates may vary; past results do not guarantee future performance)<\/i> using our simple three-step plan. The tenured research job and <cite>New York Times<\/cite> best-selling pop science book of your dreams are within your reach!<\/p>\n<p>(Click &#8220;Read On&#8221; for the diet that wil change your life!)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;ve got nothing for you. I just noticed two recurring patterns in blog traffic:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Posts dealing with string theory, even in passing, get a minimum of ten comments.<\/li>\n<li>Posts dealing with weight loss issues, even in passing, get a minimum of ten comments.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I figured a post titled &#8220;The String Theory Diet&#8221; ought to get into the triple digits&#8230; I just wish I had  a halfway serious diet plan to go with it&#8211; it&#8217;d be like a licence to print money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you unhappy with the way you look? Feel like you&#8217;re carrying around some large extra dimensions? Want to compactify your manifold before the summer conference season gets here? If you answered &#8220;Yes!&#8221; to any of those questions, then you&#8217;re ready for the String Theory Diet! Each rich, satisfying meals of eleven-dimensional noodles, and watch&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/17\/the-string-theory-diet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The String Theory Diet<\/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":[34,7,24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-physics","category-silliness","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}