{"id":835,"date":"2010-05-25T01:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=835"},"modified":"2010-05-25T01:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:33:26","slug":"questions-best-left-to-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Questions Best Left to Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an experimental scientist, I know that there is a lot you can only find out through direct experience, and more that is best learned that way. There are also a lot of questions that you really <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> want to find the answer to the hard way, such as whether there&#8217;s an afterlife, what would Stephen Harper do with an unfettered majority government, or would looking at a solar eclipse without eye protection be awesome enough to warrant the retinal damage?<\/p>\n<p>To that list, I can now add: can my car withstand being kicked by a disembodied deer leg? (The answer is yes; also, deer have a lot of blood inside of them.)<\/p>\n<p>PS: I&#8217;m really thankful I&#8217;m not the guy who just discovered how well his SUV took a head-on collision with a whole deer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an experimental scientist, I know that there is a lot you can only find out through direct experience, and more that is best learned that way. There are also a lot of questions that you really don&#8217;t want to find the answer to the hard way, such as whether there&#8217;s an afterlife, what would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}