{"id":774,"date":"2008-03-05T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=774"},"modified":"2011-08-28T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:01:13","slug":"essays_the_mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/essays_the_mean.html","title":{"rendered":"Essays: “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist” by Richard P. Feynman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science reading for non scientists. Great conversational tone \/ these are “transcribed” from three lectures he gave; there were a few spots that in person\/out loud were probably very funny although a bit dry on the page.<\/p>\n

Really, really enjoyed the first two sections \/ the third is (as he announces at the outset) a bit of a ramble and it lost my attention a few times. But worth reading nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Thoughtful and concise and ready to converse. Written in ’63 (if I recall, book’s not next to me) but still very relevant today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Science reading for non scientists. Great conversational tone \/ these are “transcribed” from three lectures he gave; there were a few spots that in person\/out loud were probably very funny although a bit dry on the page. Really, really enjoyed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}