{"id":24029,"date":"2022-01-24T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T01:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24029"},"modified":"2022-01-24T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T01:12:59","slug":"infinitely-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24029","title":{"rendered":"Infinitely better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having breakfast at a cafe that had exactly one vegetarian option. My dining companion said to me, &#8220;It&#8217;s too bad they have only one thing for you on the menu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I replied, without really thinking about it, &#8220;Yes, but it&#8217;s infinitely better than if they had zero things for me on the menu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized that what I had just said was mathematically correct, in a very precise way. Somehow that made the breakfast taste better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having breakfast at a cafe that had exactly one vegetarian option. My dining companion said to me, &#8220;It&#8217;s too bad they have only one thing for you on the menu.&#8221; I replied, without really thinking about it, &#8220;Yes, but it&#8217;s infinitely better than if they had zero things for me on the menu.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Infinitely better&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24030,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029\/revisions\/24030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}