{"id":3646,"date":"2012-12-03T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2012-12-03T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:43:00","slug":"the-universe-and-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3646","title":{"rendered":"The Universe And Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil deGrasse Tyson ponders whether the universe has a purpose:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7pL5vzIMAhs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although he can be a little smug at times, Tyson is probably one of the most genial skeptics in popular culture. He isn&#8217;t as acerbic as Hitchens or as confrontational as Dawkins. And I like his collection of geek-themed ties. The video above is a charming primer on rationalism and I hope we get to see more like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil deGrasse Tyson ponders whether the universe has a purpose: Although he can be a little smug at times, Tyson is probably one of the most genial skeptics in popular culture. He isn&#8217;t as acerbic as Hitchens or as confrontational as Dawkins. And I like his collection of geek-themed ties. The video above is a <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3646' 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-19-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-WO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","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=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}