{"id":6870,"date":"2015-05-24T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2015-05-24T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:38:55","slug":"a-beautiful-mind-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6870","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful mind no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Forbes Nash Jr. is dead, along with his wife Alicia. They were killed on the New Jersey Turnpike when the taxi, taking them home from the airport, crashed into a guardrail and another vehicle after the driver lost control while trying to pass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6871\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nash.jpg 325w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nash-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nash and his wife were returning from Norway, where Nash was one of the\u00a0recipients of the 2015 Abel prize.<\/p>\n<p>News of this accident made me shudder for another reason. Less than two weeks ago, when I was returning from Dubai, my taxi driver not only answered a call on his cell phone, he even responded to a text while driving. I was too tired to say anything at first and then thankfully he came to his senses&#8230; but his behavior made me feel decidedly uncomfortable in his vehicle. Next time, I will not hesitate to tell the taxi driver to stop immediately or call another taxi for me.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6870' 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>John Forbes Nash Jr. is dead, along with his wife Alicia. They were killed on the New Jersey Turnpike when the taxi, taking them home from the airport, crashed into a guardrail and another vehicle after the driver lost control while trying to pass. Nash and his wife were returning from Norway, where Nash was <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6870' 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":[30,35,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-personal","category-society","category-30-id","category-35-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\/6870","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=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}