{"id":14278,"date":"2015-05-19T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14278"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:12","slug":"will-we-ever-understand-the-beginning-of-the-universe-ross-andersen-aeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/will-we-ever-understand-the-beginning-of-the-universe-ross-andersen-aeon","title":{"rendered":"Will we ever understand the beginning of the universe? \u2014 Ross Andersen | AEON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"http:\/\/cdn-imgs-mag.aeon.co\/images\/2015\/05\/FLAMMARION-FINAL-SIZED-1024x639.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are wedded to these ideas, because they grew up with them. Scientists don\u2019t like to change ideas unless they\u2019re forced to. They get involved with a theory. They get emotionally attached to it. When an idea is looking shaky, they go into defensive mode.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/science\/has-cosmology-run-into-a-creative-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople are wedded to these ideas, because they grew up with them. Scientists don\u2019t like to change ideas unless they\u2019re forced to. They get involved with a theory. They get emotionally attached to it. When an idea is looking shaky, they go into defensive mode.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52145,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions\/52145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}