{"id":3227,"date":"2012-04-03T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2012-04-03T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:29:07","slug":"guinea-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3227","title":{"rendered":"Guinea Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often deride Stephen Hawking, my arch-nemesis, for being a bit of a publicity hound. &#8220;Stephen,&#8221; I say in between our zero-g \u00a0practice bouts aboard the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reduced_gravity_aircraft\">Vomit Comet<\/a>, &#8220;have you ever met a camera that you could say no to?&#8221; But Hawking&#8217;s position as the world&#8217;s most famous gimp might not be not be such a bad thing for the rest of us. If his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/03\/science\/ibrain-a-device-that-can-read-thoughts.html?ref=technology\">testing of brain-computer interfaces<\/a> allows me to one day browse my collection of fishnet-themed photography with just a few eye blinks, who am I to begrudge the man his stardom?<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t excuse his constant trash-talking. The man recently questioned my parentage using language that would make <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Swearengen\">Al Swearengen<\/a> blush like a schoolgirl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often deride Stephen Hawking, my arch-nemesis, for being a bit of a publicity hound. &#8220;Stephen,&#8221; I say in between our zero-g \u00a0practice bouts aboard the Vomit Comet, &#8220;have you ever met a camera that you could say no to?&#8221; But Hawking&#8217;s position as the world&#8217;s most famous gimp might not be not be such <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3227' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-tech","category-14-id","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}