{"id":1093,"date":"2007-11-12T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/11\/12\/the-smartest-man-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T19:56:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T03:56:27","slug":"the-smartest-man-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/11\/12\/the-smartest-man-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The smartest man in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"I went back to tag this story a year and a half later and I still love it.  THIS IS A GREAT STORY.\">\n<p>The President takes one parachute, the smartest man in the world another, and the Pope offers the third to the little boy.  &#8220;No need,&#8221; chuckles the boy, &#8220;the smartest man in the world took my backpack!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The smartest man in the world is working fast, using his body to shield the backpack as he converts it to a crude jet-glider.  The President&#8217;s bottle of Jack has enough potential energy in it to counter his velocity, if he can direct it properly&#8211;spark from his watch battery, paper fuse, hope.<\/p>\n<p>He can do it.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the smartest man in the world.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President takes one parachute, the smartest man in the world another, and the Pope offers the third to the little boy. &#8220;No need,&#8221; chuckles the boy, &#8220;the smartest man in the world took my backpack!&#8221; The smartest man in the world is working fast, using his body to shield the backpack as he converts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}