{"id":1072,"date":"2003-12-11T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/12\/11\/1072\/"},"modified":"2003-12-11T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T23:44:40","slug":"1072","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/12\/11\/1072\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The real Universe arched sickeningly away beneath them.  Various pretend ones flitted silently by, like mountain goats.  Primal light exploded, splattering space-time as with gobbets of Jell-O.  Time blossomed, matter shrank away.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspot.net\/news\/health\/bal-te.primenumber11dec11,0,7198855.story?coll=bal-health-headlines\" title=\"&quot;It is more than 2 million digits larger than the previous largest known prime number.&quot;\">highest prime number<\/a> coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.h2g2.com\/\" title=\"&quot;The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC.&quot;\">The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, it&#8217;s not the highest prime number <i>period,<\/i> just the highest one <i>yet.<\/i>  Still pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The real Universe arched sickeningly away beneath them. Various pretend ones flitted silently by, like mountain goats. Primal light exploded, splattering space-time as with gobbets of Jell-O. Time blossomed, matter shrank away. The highest prime number coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away forever.&#8221; &#8212;The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy Okay, it&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}