{"id":664107,"date":"2010-02-14T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T17:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11508"},"modified":"2010-02-14T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T17:29:42","slug":"not-so-happy-valentine%e2%80%99s-day-love-xkcd-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664107","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Happy Valentine\u2019s Day. Love, xkcd | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/701\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/xkcd_valentine.jpg?resize=176%2C223\" alt=\"xkcd_valentine\" title=\"xkcd_valentine\" width=\"176\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11509\"\/><\/a>Hmmm, not all VDs are happy: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/701\/\">this strip from xkcd<\/a> is a little bit of a downer, but I have a hard time disagreeing with his message. Hover your mouse over the strip to see what he means. <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><em>This particular strip reminds me of Robert Sheckley&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=cQhke8K9G60C&#038;pg=PA109&#038;lpg=PA109&#038;dq=sheckley+language+love+fond&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=feGRhdub_i&#038;sig=tzALBNI-JwS5jz2e_XhxJY_Iq28&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=4aF1S7fOEISY8AbCooiiCg&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=6&#038;ved=0CCAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&#038;q=sheckley%20language%20love%20fond&#038;f=false\">&#8220;The Language of Love&#8221;<\/a>. I have to say, I&#8217;m rather fond of his writing.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g47xv85wjRQ6f8rv1G5dv0tFdEI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g47xv85wjRQ6f8rv1G5dv0tFdEI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g47xv85wjRQ6f8rv1G5dv0tFdEI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/g47xv85wjRQ6f8rv1G5dv0tFdEI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/2A4TKKeGDoU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/Pt9wiHlKmII\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, not all VDs are happy: this strip from xkcd is a little bit of a downer, but I have a hard time disagreeing with his message. Hover your mouse over the strip to see what he means. This particular strip reminds me of Robert Sheckley&#8217;s &#8220;The Language of Love&#8221;. I have to say, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MLp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}