{"id":11826,"date":"2012-06-05T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11826"},"modified":"2012-06-05T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T08:00:59","slug":"the-twinkie-offense-and-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11826","title":{"rendered":"The Twinkie Offense and Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/cms\/?pid=1000955\">Meet the Twinkie of particle physics: the muon.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The muon is the sponge cake of elementary particles. It\u2019s plump, basic, easy to mass-produce and disappears quickly\u2014much like a Twinkie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/cms\/?pid=1000967\">The rebuttal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Second, despite our relatively long lifespan, we are nothing like a Twinkie, which seems to have an infinite shelf life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much like Wonder Bread, the Twinkie&#8217;s expiration date is &#8220;You should live so long&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Twinkie of particle physics: the muon. The muon is the sponge cake of elementary particles. It\u2019s plump, basic, easy to mass-produce and disappears quickly\u2014much like a Twinkie. The rebuttal Second, despite our relatively long lifespan, we are nothing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}