{"id":12517,"date":"2021-10-08T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2021-10-08T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:39:54","slug":"this-weeks-hype-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12517","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from the BBC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel\/video\/p09xhj2b\/string-theory-a-simple-way-to-understand-the-universe\">String theory &#8211; a simple way to understand the universe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not worth more comment than it&#8217;s another reminder that this nonsense continues to be heavily promoted in our most prominent and respected mass media. I&#8217;m beginning to doubt we&#8217;re going to be rid of it in my (or anyone&#8217;s) lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest from the BBC: String theory &#8211; a simple way to understand the universe Not worth more comment than it&#8217;s another reminder that this nonsense continues to be heavily promoted in our most prominent and respected mass media. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions\/12518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}