{"id":86,"date":"2011-05-24T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T07:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/?p=86"},"modified":"2011-12-19T02:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:44:58","slug":"2-4-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/2011\/05\/24\/2-4-may-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"24 May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me re-phrase that. Now it seems yet another song needs bass on it. I don&#8217;t get what&#8217;s so important about bass. And what&#8217;s so great about The Merkins they need so long to record\u00a0a few songs?<br \/>\nI really hope there soon will be a long gap between posts whereby The Merkins will have actually\u00a0done something. I feel like I&#8217;m twiddling my thumbs here. Making up stuff that isn&#8217;t even interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Like Stephen Hawking, the almost totally paralysed cosmologist (back in the day he would have been called a philosphopher). I think he&#8217;s great. I love it he has ideas. It&#8217;s better than having no ideas. I do worry about his worrying though. I just can&#8217;t believe he reckons theists are more scared of the dark than atheists. Let&#8217;s face it, everyone is afraid of the dark. Except people who aren&#8217;t. I&#8217;m sure\u00a0it&#8217;s not a competition.<br \/>\nMaybe Stephen is being a little bit provocative there. Good on him.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen says there is no afterlife. Except for atoms. Atoms have an afterlife. And thought is ephemeral. What he means is that the\u00a0mortal is\u00a0immortal and the immortal mortal.<br \/>\nAs I say, I think he&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p>I remind myself (in a humble way) of John Cleese in an episode of Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus where they seemed to have run out of ideas for the show and so, for the last segment, they simply did a long, slow zoom-in on a beach with John Cleese dressed up as a Roman soldier, and a voice-over explaining that there really wasn&#8217;t anything else they could think of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me re-phrase that. Now it seems yet another song needs bass on it. I don&#8217;t get what&#8217;s so important about bass. And what&#8217;s so great about The Merkins they need so long to record\u00a0a few songs? I really hope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/2011\/05\/24\/2-4-may-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}