{"id":4868,"date":"2012-10-03T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T01:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2012-10-03T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T01:06:53","slug":"wednesday-night-life-imitates-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/10\/03\/wednesday-night-life-imitates-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; life imitates science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 different people approached me today with weird science questions.. most were friends.. but others were folks i didn&#8217;t know. When friend M. asked me one of these questions (about electric fields and viruses.. pretty cool )\u00a0\u00a0 I asked him.. &#8216;why me&#8217; .. Now this is a guy I&#8217;ve known for a while through work.. but we have never met face to face as he lives in Europe.\u00a0\u00a0 His answer was that I <em>look<\/em> like a scientist :-).\u00a0\u00a0 I thought about that for awhile..\u00a0\u00a0 and realized that it&#8217;s funny.. the goofier I look , teh more like a scientist I feel.. it&#8217;s like the way I look is influencing the way I act and .. i suspect visa versa.. Folks say art imitates life and life imitates art. I&#8217;d have to say\u00a0 science imitates life and life imitates science ..<\/p>\n<p>Oh.. the debate is on.. I gotta sign off..\u00a0\u00a0 more tomorrow !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 different people approached me today with weird science questions.. most were friends.. but others were folks i didn&#8217;t know. When friend M. asked me one of these questions (about electric fields and viruses.. pretty cool )\u00a0\u00a0 I asked him.. &#8216;why me&#8217; .. Now this is a guy I&#8217;ve known for a while through work.. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/10\/03\/wednesday-night-life-imitates-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; life imitates science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[598],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-life-imitates-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}