{"id":771,"date":"2008-08-08T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=771"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:46:40","slug":"furby-tamagachis-string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Furby, Tamagachis, string theory&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things don&#8217;t seem to be going well these days for string theory  in the &#8220;marketplace of ideas&#8221;.  From an <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2008\/08\/05\/every-drop-counts-nissan-to-equip-cars-with-fuel-efficient-eco-pedals\/\">article about gasoline-saving pedals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 1990\u2019s were the host of many great fads. Furby, Tamagachis, string theory, the examples are as numerous as the many incarnations of Prince.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things don&#8217;t seem to be going well these days for string theory in the &#8220;marketplace of ideas&#8221;. From an article about gasoline-saving pedals: The 1990\u2019s were the host of many great fads. Furby, Tamagachis, string theory, the examples are as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}