{"id":2589,"date":"2008-05-10T09:22:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/10\/heres-an-experiment-for-you\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T09:22:05","slug":"heres-an-experiment-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/10\/heres-an-experiment-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s An Experiment For You&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/284\">Swans On Tea<\/a>, I see that Comedy Central has put up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/videos.jhtml?videoId=167602\">video of George Johnson&#8217;s appearance on the Colbert Report<\/a>. Or, I should say, they claim to have put it up&#8211; their video player didn&#8217;t work worth a damn on my computer.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this on the day-late rerun, and it was hilarious. Not because Johnson is at all witty or amusing&#8211; he&#8217;s not. But toward the end it turns into an <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/242\/\">xkcd comic<\/a>, and achieves a sort of accidental brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out, if you can get it to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Swans On Tea, I see that Comedy Central has put up the video of George Johnson&#8217;s appearance on the Colbert Report. Or, I should say, they claim to have put it up&#8211; their video player didn&#8217;t work worth a damn on my computer. I saw this on the day-late rerun, and it was hilarious.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/10\/heres-an-experiment-for-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here&#8217;s An Experiment For You&#8230;<\/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":[11,52,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-science_books","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","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=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}