{"id":120,"date":"2006-08-27T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2006-08-27T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T00:41:00","slug":"bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of my very public <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=119\">relativity humiliation<\/a>, I&#8217;ve decided to sentence myself to a one-month punishment term of only blogging about things that I actually understand.  That means, unfortunately, that from now until September 27 this blog is going to be quite boring and limited in scope.  It also means that Lev R.&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=105\">prizewinning question<\/a>, about the survival prospects of the human race, will need to be deferred until after the punishment term.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear: No string theory.  No global warming.  No biting vaginas.  No Mahmoud.  Quantum complexity classes are probably kosher.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of today&#8217;s entry will be about the topic of bananas.  Bananas are long, yellow fruits that grow in bunches on some sort of plant or other.  They consist of two components: the peel, and the &#8220;meat.&#8221;  Well, there are probably other components as well, but those two are the most readily identifiable.  The meat is delicious when fresh, even more so if covered with chocolate.  When not fresh, on the other hand, it tends to form brown spots.  The peel is not so good to eat, but is reputed to good for tripping dumb, careless, unwary people.  Like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of my very public relativity humiliation, I&#8217;ve decided to sentence myself to a one-month punishment term of only blogging about things that I actually understand. That means, unfortunately, that from now until September 27 this blog is going to be quite boring and limited in scope. It also means that Lev R.&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-referential"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}