{"id":9207,"date":"2010-04-22T14:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/why-42\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:30:02","slug":"why-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/why-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;42?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.fan.douglas-adams\/msg\/d1064f7b27808692?pli=1'>Why &#8220;42?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Adams\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Adams<\/a> himself has a simple explanation for his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy\" target=\"_blank\">answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number,  an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary  representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete  nonsense. I sat at my desk,  stared into the garden and thought &lsquo;42  will do&rsquo; I typed it out. End of story.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8220;42?&#8221; Douglas Adams himself has a simple explanation for his answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything: &ldquo;The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/why-42\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why &#8220;42?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}