{"id":27872,"date":"2020-05-19T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27872"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T07:39:45","slug":"direct-observation-trumps-theories-no-matter-how-carefully-theorised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27872","title":{"rendered":"Direct Observation Trumps Theories, No Matter How Carefully Theorised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I  made the remark when we went over the top, \u2018Eureka, Houston, the Earth  is really round,\u2019 and When I got back to Houston, I got all this mail  from members of the Flat Earth Society telling me I didn\u2019t know what I  was talking about\u201d.<\/strong><em>\u2013 Pete Conrad (astronaut)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the remark when we went over the top, \u2018Eureka, Houston, the Earth is really round,\u2019 and When I got back to Houston, I got all this mail from members of the Flat Earth Society telling me I didn\u2019t know what I was talking about\u201d.\u2013 Pete Conrad (astronaut)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27873,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27872\/revisions\/27873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}