{"id":2832,"date":"2006-11-13T16:37:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/yeah-i-get-this-too\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T16:37:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T21:37:02","slug":"yeah-i-get-this-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/yeah-i-get-this-too\/","title":{"rendered":"yeah, I get this too"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every few weeks someone contacts me with a proposal for what is, in effect, a perpetual motion machine. He (for it is always a he) can demonstrate to my satisfaction that, unlike all the quacks and cranks and mountebanks I have heard about, he really has solved the problem. He has a special catalyst, or a new equation, or a hotline to God, which demonstrates what all other physicists consider impossible: that energy can be created. &hellip; My only defence against these people is to ask them for an article in a peer-reviewed journal, whereupon I never hear from them again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&mdash; from <em>Heat<\/em>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/\">George Monbiot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few weeks someone contacts me with a proposal for what is, in effect, a perpetual motion machine. He (for it is always a he) can demonstrate to my satisfaction that, unlike all the quacks and cranks and mountebanks I have heard about, he really has solved the problem. He has a special catalyst, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[1302,705,481,1066,170,281,1433,269,199,1366,998],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wagdaiyf","tag-ack","tag-art","tag-cat","tag-eat","tag-eek","tag-energy","tag-geo","tag-mac","tag-peo","tag-quote","tag-yeah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-JG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}