{"id":46120,"date":"2017-04-16T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=46120"},"modified":"2017-04-16T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T15:04:27","slug":"celebrating-the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge-institute-for-advanced-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/celebrating-the-usefulness-of-useless-knowledge-institute-for-advanced-study","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating \u201cThe Usefulness of Useless Knowledge\u201d | Institute for Advanced Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rb4CyvY54Eg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn March 13, the Institute celebrated the publication of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/idea-tags\/usefulness-useless-knowledge\">The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge<\/a><\/em> (Princeton University Press), which features IAS Founding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/idea-tags\/director\">Director<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/idea-tags\/abraham-flexner\">Abraham Flexner<\/a>\u2019s classic essay of the same title, first published in <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em> magazine in 1939.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/ideas\/2017\/celebrating-usefulness-useless-knowledge\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOn March 13, the Institute celebrated the publication of The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (Princeton University Press), which features IAS Founding Director Abraham Flexner\u2019s classic essay of the same title, first published in Harper\u2019s magazine in 1939.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46214,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120\/revisions\/46214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}