{"id":5971,"date":"2011-12-31T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/31\/it-may-or-may-not-be-2012-some\/"},"modified":"2011-12-31T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:14:50","slug":"it-may-or-may-not-be-2012-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/31\/it-may-or-may-not-be-2012-some\/","title":{"rendered":"It May or May Not be 2012 Somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, a reader from Bulgaria sent me a photo of a highly topical bottle of local spirits:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-48148011571a82cd4a0a3d5e9ae7f8d1-quantum_wine.jpg\" alt=\"i-48148011571a82cd4a0a3d5e9ae7f8d1-quantum_wine.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can either know where you are, or how much you&#8217;ve drunk, but not both&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Having spent my last day of 2011 taking SteelyKid to the mall for bouncy-bounce and midway games, and then having her help me bake apple pie (which she demanded to do out of nowhere, and <em>wouldn&#8217;t stop talking about<\/em>), I could really use a shot of quantum liquor. Or even some classical beer.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I&#8217;m fighting a wretched cold, so booze is out of the question. But if you&#8217;re in a partying state, have a drink for me. And may your 2012 be better than your 2011, but worse than your 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, a reader from Bulgaria sent me a photo of a highly topical bottle of local spirits: You can either know where you are, or how much you&#8217;ve drunk, but not both&#8230; Having spent my last day of 2011 taking SteelyKid to the mall for bouncy-bounce and midway games, and then having her&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/31\/it-may-or-may-not-be-2012-some\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It May or May Not be 2012 Somewhere<\/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":[34,2,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-personal","category-physics","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","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=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}