{"id":1815,"date":"2004-09-02T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2004-09-02T16:36:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T21:36:53","slug":"mad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Mad Science!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those fools!  What do they think they&#8217;re doing, messing around with dinosaur bones in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article862346.ece\">Norway<\/a>?!?  Haven&#8217;t they seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056405\/\">Reptilicus<\/a>?!?  Granted, that was Denmark, not Norway&#8230;  But they&#8217;re not that far apart!  Have we learned nothing at all from that <a href=\"http:\/\/smitheeawards.com\/film_details.cfm?Film_ID=513\">cautionary tale<\/a>?  How many more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/movies\/SFX_2002_Reptilicus.mov\">cardboard cut-outs of farmers in blue plaid shirts will be eaten by rubber snakes<\/a> before we realize that digging up dinosaurs in Scandinavia can only lead to tragedy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those fools! What do they think they&#8217;re doing, messing around with dinosaur bones in Norway?!? Haven&#8217;t they seen Reptilicus?!? Granted, that was Denmark, not Norway&#8230; But they&#8217;re not that far apart! Have we learned nothing at all from that cautionary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}