{"id":1513,"date":"2008-09-05T23:16:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T03:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2015-03-18T23:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:28:58","slug":"aside-the-demise-of-pure-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/aside-the-demise-of-pure-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside: The demise of pure research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon worked for Bell Labs (now owned by Alcatel-Lucent).<\/p>\n<p>Guess who just <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/gadgets\/2008\/08\/bell-labs-kills.html\">shut down &#8220;fundamental research&#8221; in physics<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Not quite <em>sic transit gloria mundi<\/em>, but definitely a chunk of the glory of American research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Shannon worked for Bell Labs (now owned by Alcatel-Lucent). Guess who just shut down &#8220;fundamental research&#8221; in physics? Not quite sic transit gloria mundi, but definitely a chunk of the glory of American research. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/aside-the-demise-of-pure-research\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[331,3],"tags":[270,67],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-aside","category-technology","tag-corporations","tag-science","post_format-post-format-aside","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-op","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}