{"id":7185,"date":"2012-06-14T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2012-06-14T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:52:49","slug":"the-perfection-of-bay-area-dogphysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/06\/14\/the-perfection-of-bay-area-dogphysics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfection of Bay Area Dogphysics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, as I was flying in to San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/giants\/ci_20853631\/san-francisco-giants-matt-cain-pitches-first-perfect-game-franchise-history\">Matt Cain pitched the first perfect game in Giants history<\/a>. Now, a casual observer might think these events were unrelated, but to ancient alien theorists, the connection between them could not be more obvious. Thus, you should come to Kepler&#8217;s Books in Menlo Park this evening at 7pm, to see what amazing events will happen next.<\/p>\n<p>Well, OK, the most that will probably happen is that I might read a bit from the <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/relativity_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> in a silly voice. But you don&#8217;t know that I <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> use my awesome ancient alien magic to transmute lead into gold, Deepak Chopra books into useful medical advice, or the Golden State Warriors into a competitive NBA franchise. Unless you come to Kepler&#8217;s tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Be there, or settle for reading about it in the papers and lying to your grandchildren when they ask where you were when all that awesome stuff happened in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, as I was flying in to San Francisco, Matt Cain pitched the first perfect game in Giants history. Now, a casual observer might think these events were unrelated, but to ancient alien theorists, the connection between them could not be more obvious. Thus, you should come to Kepler&#8217;s Books in Menlo Park this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/06\/14\/the-perfection-of-bay-area-dogphysics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Perfection of Bay Area Dogphysics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,11,52,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-science","category-science_books","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}