{"id":495,"date":"2013-04-20T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T21:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/causation"},"modified":"2013-11-17T05:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T05:15:20","slug":"causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2013\/04\/causation.html","title":{"rendered":"Causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G: Why did Peter lose his jacket?<\/p>\n<p>Me: Because his buttons were caught.<\/p>\n<p>G: Why were his buttons caught?<\/p>\n<p>Me: Because they were stuck in the gooseberry net.<\/p>\n<p>G: Why was he stuck in the gooseberry net?<\/p>\n<p>Me: Because Mr. MacGregor was chasing him.<\/p>\n<p>G: Why was Mr. MacGregor chasing him?<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8230; because roughly 13 billion years ago, the Big Bang happened, and therefore eventually Mr. MacGregor decided to chase Peter.<\/p>\n<p>G: &#8230; what is the Big Bang?<\/p>\n<p>Me: It was a giant explosion that created the universe as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>G: &lt;slaps his own knee as hard he can&gt; &#8212; That was a Big Bang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why was Mr. MacGregor chasing him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}