{"id":722,"date":"2011-12-21T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-12-21T13:15:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T11:15:03","slug":"seems-it-wasnt-always-called-the-god-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/21\/seems-it-wasnt-always-called-the-god-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"seems it wasn’t always called the “god particle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

in a recent article in the economist, i found out that the Higgs boson, commonly named the “god particle” was originally called the “goddamn particle” because it was so hard to find. the author’s editor wasn’t pleased, made a minor deletion, and the new expurgated name stuck.<\/p>\n

‘twould have been much funnier if we were still using the original version all over the media..<\/p>\n

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in a recent article in the economist, i found out that the Higgs boson, commonly named the “god particle” was originally called the “goddamn particle” because it was so hard to find. the author’s editor wasn’t pleased, made a minor deletion, and the new expurgated name stuck. ‘twould have been much funnier if we were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-bE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}