{"id":1193,"date":"2008-07-18T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2008-07-18T16:34:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T23:34:24","slug":"that-surfing-physicist-in-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"That Surfing Physicist In The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antony_Garrett_Lisi\" target=\"_blank\">Garret Lisi<\/a><\/strong>, that frighteningly smart, unemployed surfer\/snowboarder physicist who <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=garrett+lisi\" target=\"_blank\">got so much play<\/a><\/strong> in January 2008 for maybe having solved the ultimate physics problem with his &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=224\" target=\"_blank\">Theory of Everything<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; was profiled in this week&#8217;s issue of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/07\/21\/080721fa_fact_wallacewells\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link to read the abstract, or buy the magazine for the whole story. It&#8217;s the one with cartoon of <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> on the cover dressed as a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/07\/21\/080721fa_fact_wallacewells\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garret Lisi, that frighteningly smart, unemployed surfer\/snowboarder physicist who got so much play in January 2008 for maybe having solved the ultimate physics problem with his &#8220;Theory of Everything&#8221; was profiled in this week&#8217;s issue of The New Yorker. Click the link to read the abstract, or buy the magazine for the whole story. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}