{"id":2092,"date":"2008-10-16T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2008-10-16T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:10:12","slug":"cult_following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"Cult Following"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, this is getting to be too much. Some misguided slacker had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/10\/15\/steven-hawking-in-br.html\">Stephen Hawking&#8217;s portrait tatooed on his right leg<\/a>. Underneath the portrait is a quote from a Monty Python movie: &#8220;He&#8217;s not the messiah, he&#8217;s a very naughty boy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to wager that my own naughtiness far exceeds Hawking&#8217;s, but that&#8217;s beside the point. Clearly, the only way I can counter the Hawking media juggernaut is to do something noteworthy enough to steal his spotlight, like write a bestselling novel or take over a small Latin American country. And given the glacial pace of my writing, the second option is more likely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, this is getting to be too much. Some misguided slacker had Stephen Hawking&#8217;s portrait tatooed on his right leg. Underneath the portrait is a quote from a Monty Python movie: &#8220;He&#8217;s not the messiah, he&#8217;s a very naughty boy.&#8221; I&#8217;m willing to wager that my own naughtiness far exceeds Hawking&#8217;s, but that&#8217;s beside the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2092' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-xK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}