{"id":622,"date":"2004-10-06T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=622"},"modified":"2004-10-06T18:40:52","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T18:40:52","slug":"doomsday_device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s VP debate has been sufficiently spun by <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/politics\/TheNote\/TheNote.html\">the usual suspects<\/a>, so the only thing I&#8217;ll add is that Edwards seemed to sound a lot more natural and a lot more passionate when the discussion turned to domestic issues.  And what was up with the moderator?  Some of her questions were odd and a bit out of left field.  &#8220;Without using the name of your running mate&#8230;&#8221;  Huh?  I thought she was going to have the candidates take out their No. 2 pencils for the next question.<br \/>\nAntimatter&#8230;it&#8217;s not just for Star Trek geeks anymore.  The Air Force is trying to develop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2004\/10\/04\/MNGM393GPK1.DTL\">antimatter-based weapons<\/a>.  For those times when you need a little more kick than what your run-of-the-mill nuke can offer.  Global vaporization in five&#8230;four&#8230;three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s VP debate has been sufficiently spun by the usual suspects, so the only thing I&#8217;ll add is that Edwards seemed to sound a lot more natural and a lot more passionate when the discussion turned to domestic issues. And what was up with the moderator? Some of her questions were odd and a <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=622' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","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-a2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}