{"id":180960,"date":"2016-11-12T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/12\/schrodingers-coolness\/"},"modified":"2016-11-12T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:52:00","slug":"schrodingers-coolness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/12\/schrodingers-coolness\/","title":{"rendered":"Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Coolness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden seems to have the ability to be totally cool and totally uncool at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>When I made this comment, my son observed that this was &#8220;Schrodinger&#8217;s Coolness,&#8221; in that he is simultaneously cool and not cool, much like the famously indeterminate cat.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point are reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/290418-biden-shares-photo-of-friendship-bracelet-for-best-friend\">Biden made a friendship bracelet for Barack Obama for his 55<sup>th<\/sup> birthday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Vice President Biden on Thursday celebrated President Obama&#8217;s 55th birthday with a touching note on Twitter. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Happy 55th, Barack! A brother to me, a best friend forever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uNsxouTKOO\">pic.twitter.com\/uNsxouTKOO<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014 Vice President Biden (@VP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/761253705341480962\">August 4, 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna miss him when Bond villain wannabe Mike Pence takes the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the explosion of Biden memes on Facebook, I do not think that I am alone in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden seems to have the ability to be totally cool and totally uncool at the same time. When I made this comment, my son observed that this was &#8220;Schrodinger&#8217;s Coolness,&#8221; in that he is simultaneously cool and not cool, much like the famously indeterminate cat. Case in point are reports that Biden &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":[851,828],"class_list":["post-180960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-white-house","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180960"}],"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=180960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}