{"id":28443,"date":"2026-05-20T22:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28443"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:41:04","slug":"infinite-improbability-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28443","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Improbability Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time these days that I read the news, and learn about the latest bizarre antics of our current U.S. administration, I think of Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n<p>It feels as though we are living through the Infinite Improbability Drive from his book &#8220;The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Except that we are experiencing it as our actual reality. And I find myself wondering where in the Universe we are going to end up next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time these days that I read the news, and learn about the latest bizarre antics of our current U.S. administration, I think of Douglas Adams. It feels as though we are living through the Infinite Improbability Drive from his book &#8220;The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy&#8221;. Except that we are experiencing it as our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Infinite Improbability Drive&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28444,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28443\/revisions\/28444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}