{"id":66,"date":"2008-09-11T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-09-11T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T21:07:11","slug":"the_final_countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/09\/the_final_countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"future.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/future.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cern has fired up the giant particle collider and somehow a number of Googlers have landed here looking for evidence of impending doom.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dear kindly visitors: I cannot explain how you have been led so astray, but I can offer you directions to <a href=\"http:\/\/meish.org\/2008\/09\/10\/being-a-list-of-songs-relating-to-the-switching-on-of-the-lhc\/\">this playlist<\/a> to help you along in your journey.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of the need for music <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">in extremis<\/span>, ever need to wrap <i>your<\/i> instrument <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/musical\/2008\/09\/15\/080915crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all\">in Saran Wrap<\/a> just to get through the concert in one piece? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cern has fired up the giant particle collider and somehow a number of Googlers have landed here looking for evidence of impending doom.\u00c2\u00a0 Dear kindly visitors: I cannot explain how you have been led so astray, but I can offer you directions to this playlist to help you along in your journey. And speaking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}