{"id":1052,"date":"2003-04-09T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/04\/09\/1052.html"},"modified":"2003-04-09T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T07:03:14","slug":"acronyms-gone-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/04\/09\/acronyms-gone-awry\/","title":{"rendered":"Acronyms gone awry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple years ago, <cite>The Register<\/cite> published some sort of opinion piece titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/archive\/10332.html\">CPU initiative wasted on extra terrestrials<\/a>,\" which complained about people wasting valuable processor cycles on the SETI@Home effort instead of doing something useful like human-genome-related processing.<\/p>\n<p>The piece isn't really all that interesting, but I did find this line amusing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SETI, which stands for the search for extraterrestrial life,...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=719\">ROTFLMAO<\/a> explanation I mentioned a few months back.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago, The Register published some sort of opinion piece titled &#8220;CPU initiative wasted on extra terrestrials,&#8221; which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}