{"id":862,"date":"2009-04-02T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=862"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:44:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:44:04","slug":"the-giant-adenoid-that-ate-st-jamess-takes-a-step-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/04\/the-giant-adenoid-that-ate-st-jamess-takes-a-step-closer-to-reality.html","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Adenoid that Ate St James&#8217;s takes a step closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Now it turns out that this light bulb over the colonel\u2019s head here is the same identical Osram light bulb that Franz Pokler used to sleep next to in his bunk at the underground rocket works at Nordhausen. Statistically (so Their story goes), every n-thousandth bulb is gonna be perfect, all the delta-q\u2019s piling up just right, so we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that his one\u2019s still around, burning brightly. But the truth is even more stupendous. This bulb is immortal! It\u2019s been around, in fact, since the twenties, has that old-timery point at the tip and is less pear-shaped than more contemporary bulbs&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas Pynchon, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lukedanger.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/story-of-byron-bulb.html\">pp.647<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to the homepage devoted to the Longest burning Light Bulb in history. Now in its 108th year of illumination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centennialbulb.org\/\">Livermore&#8217;s Centennial Light<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">First <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/09\/next-thing-i-know-itll-turn-out-that-st.html\">Meggezones<\/a>, now this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now it turns out that this light bulb over the colonel\u2019s head here is the same identical Osram light bulb that Franz Pokler used to sleep next to in his bunk at the underground rocket works at Nordhausen. Statistically (so Their story goes), every n-thousandth bulb is gonna be perfect, all the delta-q\u2019s piling up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}