{"id":2381,"date":"2009-07-30T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2009-07-30T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T17:27:32","slug":"now_theyre_just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"Now They’re Just Giving These Things Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Dear Professor Hawking: <\/p>\n

Let me be one of the first to congratulate you on your receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a>. It’s well-deserved, I’m sure. Please give the President my warmest regards when you see him and also inquire as to whether he has firmed up a departure date for our shuttle trip to the space station<\/a>. I need a little advance notice so that I can put in my vacation request at work. Some of us don’t have the luxury of skipping town whenever the impulse strikes. <\/p>\n

Incidentally, you might want to consider wearing your newly-acquired medal for the fight. Television audiences love their bling. And it might make you seem a little less pathetic after you crumble like a stale cookie, unable to withstand my brutal lesson in physics.<\/p>\n

Salutations & Felicitations,
MS<\/p>\n

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My Dear Professor Hawking: Let me be one of the first to congratulate you on your receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s well-deserved, I’m sure. Please give the President my warmest regards when you see him and also inquire as to whether he has firmed up a departure date for our shuttle trip […]<\/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-2381","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-Cp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","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=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}