{"id":893,"date":"2009-01-01T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2009-01-01T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T18:32:59","slug":"happy-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/happy-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2009!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/webeyedrops.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div align=center>May our minds be like dew drops on the cosmic web,<br \/>\n Each unique,<br \/>\n Each harmoniously vibrating with the others.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/rugeye.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I always like to think about the mathematical properties of each new year\u2019s number.<br \/>\n2009 = 49  x  41 = 7^2   x  (5^2 + 4^2), where \u201c^2\u201d\u009d means squared. <\/p>\n<p>So in plain words:<br \/>\nTwo thousand and nine is seven squared times five squared plus four squared.<\/p>\n<p>And now a message from our sponsor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/rusellbook.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got my first printed copies of my new art book, <em>Better Worlds<\/em> the other day. It looks really nice, better than I expected.  You can <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/5353188\">order your own printed copy <\/a>for $29.99.  I blogged more about this in my <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/better-worlds\/\">\u201cBetter Worlds\u201d\u009d post <\/a>a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Onward into the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! May our minds be like dew drops on the cosmic web, Each unique, Each harmoniously vibrating with the others. I always like to think about the mathematical properties of each new year\u2019s number. 2009 = 49 x 41 = 7^2 x (5^2 + 4^2), where \u201c^2\u201d\u009d means squared. So in plain words: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}