{"id":179277,"date":"2018-04-01T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/01\/why-yes-i-do-feel-like-wile-e-coyote\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:05:00","slug":"why-yes-i-do-feel-like-wile-e-coyote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/01\/why-yes-i-do-feel-like-wile-e-coyote\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yes, I Do Feel Like Wile E. Coyote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OdYYccs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OdYYccs.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not particularly worried about the <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/so-about-the-satellite-thats-about-to-crash-into-earth-1824173807\">impending reentry of the Tiangong-1 space station<\/a>, but it does conjure up the Chuck Jones Warner Brothers classic animated Road Runner shorts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I love clicks as much as the next online journalist. I love that there is an uncertain thing happening, with infinite angles to write about and to scare people with. But as the Chinese Tiangong-1 satellite nears its final descent to Earth this weekend, I need to remind you: It\u2019s not a big deal.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The chance of any casualties here is vanishingly small.<\/p>\n<p>I should have sent a magnetized hard hat to Mitch McConnell though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not particularly worried about the impending reentry of the Tiangong-1 space station, but it does conjure up the Chuck Jones Warner Brothers classic animated Road Runner shorts: I love clicks as much as the next online journalist. I love that there is an uncertain thing happening, with infinite angles to write about and to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,419],"class_list":["post-179277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}