{"id":5162,"date":"2010-11-03T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/03\/massive-giveaway-guess-the-num\/"},"modified":"2010-11-03T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:30:03","slug":"massive-giveaway-guess-the-num","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/03\/massive-giveaway-guess-the-num\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Giveaway: Guess the Number, Win a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of poor communication between publicists, I have ended up with not one but two advance copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Massive-Missing-Particle-Sparked-Greatest\/dp\/0465019471\"><cite>Massive<\/cite> by Ian Sample<\/a>, a forthcoming book about the Higgs Boson. As I barely have time to read one, I don&#8217;t remotely need two; thus, I will dispose of one with a really simple contest:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am thinking of an integer between 0 and 1000 (inclusive). The person who comes closest to guessing the number by midnight Eastern time Friday, November 5 wins a copy of <cite>Massive<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leave your guess in the comments. One entry per commenter, please. In the event that two or more people choose the same winning number, the tie will be broken based on the time stamp on the comment, so get your guess in quickly. The winner will be announced on Saturday, and contacted by email to the address left with the comment, so please provide a legitimate email address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of poor communication between publicists, I have ended up with not one but two advance copies of Massive by Ian Sample, a forthcoming book about the Higgs Boson. As I barely have time to read one, I don&#8217;t remotely need two; thus, I will dispose of one with a really simple contest:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/03\/massive-giveaway-guess-the-num\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Massive Giveaway: Guess the Number, Win a Book<\/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":[18,7,51,37,11,52,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-science_books","category-theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162","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=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}