{"id":2928,"date":"2012-04-15T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2012-04-15T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T12:43:07","slug":"more-clever-in-traffic-court-than-sheldon-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"More clever in traffic court than Sheldon Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a way to use physics more cleverly than Sheldon Cooper to avoid a costly ticket for a moving violation: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1204.0162\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1204.0162<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The brief, two-sentence abstract reads: <em>A way to fight your traffic tickets. The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, the paper is dated April 1. But the story, it appears, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/UCSD-Physicist-400-Traffic-Ticket-147450815.html\">is real<\/a> nonetheless.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2928' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a way to use physics more cleverly than Sheldon Cooper to avoid a costly ticket for a moving violation: http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1204.0162. The brief, two-sentence abstract reads: A way to fight your traffic tickets. The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2928' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-society","category-3-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}