{"id":214,"date":"2003-07-31T22:26:26","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=214"},"modified":"2003-07-31T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T01:26:26","slug":"schroedingers-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Schroedinger&#8217;s cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>oday&#8217;s news regarding the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescotsman.co.uk\/international.cfm?id=827632003\">Iraq&#8217;s weapons program<\/a>&#8216; reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=Schroedinger%27s+Cat&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=\">&#8216;Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat&#8217;<\/a>. No matter how you twist and turn, the only way to find out if the cat has died is to open the box.\n<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, during his press conference (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/07\/20030730-1.html\">yesterday<\/a>) president Bush said the following:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8221; And there is no doubt in my mind,<br \/>\nCampbell, that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States<br \/>\nsecurity, and a threat to peace in the region. And there&#8217;s no doubt in<br \/>\nmy mind that a free Iraq is important. It&#8217;s got <em>strategic consequences<\/em><br \/>\nfor not only achieving peace in the Middle East, but a free Iraq will<br \/>\nhelp change the habits of other nations in the region who will make it<br \/>\n&#8212; which will make America much more secure.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Strategic consequences? Change the habits? Poor excuses once used by<br \/>\ncountries when they invaded Old Europe and portions of Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s news regarding the &#8216;Iraq&#8217;s weapons program&#8216; reminded me of &#8216;Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat&#8217;. No matter how you twist and turn, the only way to find out if the cat has died is to open the box. Additionally, during his press conference &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}