{"id":3802,"date":"2016-06-11T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T20:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2016-06-11T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T20:09:48","slug":"profoundly-mixing-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/06\/11\/profoundly-mixing-metaphors\/","title":{"rendered":"Profoundly Mixing Metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23030753-300-the-pipes-powering-the-internet-are-nearly-full-what-do-we-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">Light Relief<\/a>,&#8221; by Timothy Revell (<em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>, 28 May 2016, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bulky copper cables remained the status quo for over a century. And then along came optical fibres: glass cylinders the width of a human hair. Capable of transmitting information over vast distances using laser light, they enabled our modern connected world. Today, more than 2 billion kilometres of optical fibres criss-cross the globe, with more rolling off the production line at a rate nearly 20 times the speed of sound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would have been happier if he&#8217;d said <em>20 times the speed of light<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Light Relief,&#8221; by Timothy Revell (NewScientist, 28 May 2016, paywall): Bulky copper cables remained the status quo for over a century. And then along came optical fibres: glass cylinders the width of a human hair. Capable of transmitting information over vast distances using laser light, they enabled our modern \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/06\/11\/profoundly-mixing-metaphors\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}