{"id":100,"date":"2007-12-13T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/cf\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-12-13T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:05:00","slug":"why-didnt-i-think-of-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/why-didnt-i-think-of-this-before.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t I Think of This Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at work I was trying to find a good, high-resolution scan of Isaac Newton&#8217;s original illustration of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronautix.com\/lvs\/newannon.htm\">cannon thought experiment<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hno.harvard.edu\/gazette\/1999\/10.21\/newton.html\">Principia Mathematica<\/a>. There are a lot of small images, and hardly any big enough for our purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, on an idle whim I tried just going straight to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonscannon.com\">www.newtonscannon.com<\/a> only to discover the domain name had not been registered.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I fixed that right away.<\/p>\n<p>No idea what I&#8217;m going to do with it yet. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at work I was trying to find a good, high-resolution scan of Isaac Newton&#8217;s original illustration of his cannon thought experiment from Principia Mathematica. There are a lot of small images, and hardly any big enough for our purposes. Anyway, on an idle whim I tried just going straight to www.newtonscannon.com only to discover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}