{"id":565,"date":"2009-12-23T20:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T12:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2013-11-19T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:00:06","slug":"the-dinosaur-so-nice-they-had-to-name-it-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/the-dinosaur-so-nice-they-had-to-name-it-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dinosaur So Nice, They Had To Name It Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/awesome_brontosaurus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/awesome_brontosaurus-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"awesome_brontosaurus\" width=\"300\" style=\"margin-right:8px;\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-566\" \/><\/a>For the most part Science and I get along well.  But sometimes it steps out of line.  <\/p>\n<p>Everyone, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a> right now*.  Look up Brontosaurus.  Go ahead, type it in.  Make sure you spell it correctly.  Then hit return.  <\/p>\n<p>Were you as shocked as I was?  Science has stolen the Brontosaurus away from us.**<\/p>\n<p>Apparently some stupid fossil hunter in the late nineteenth century discovered a bunch of dinosaur bones.  He named this new creature Apatosaurus.  Then, a couple years later, he found another, even more awesome skeleton.  This one he named Brontosaurus.  Some other stupid paleo-jerkoffs pointed out these dinosaurs were the same genus. <\/p>\n<p>Okay fine, whatever, they were using rocks for microscopes back then.  The problem is even though Brontosaurus, meaning thunder lizard, is a way cooler name than Apatosaurus, which means deceptive lizard, they decided that since the latter came first, it would be the official name.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what dead people? No one cares what you think.  Science is not going to take Brontosaurus away from us.***  The next time someone says the name Apatosaurus, punch them in the kidney.****<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>*Finish reading the directions, then go to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a>.  For our friends in China, <a href=\"http:\/\/zh.wikipedia.org\/zh-tw\/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>**This rhyme was 100% intentional.<\/p>\n<p>***Again with the rhyming.<\/p>\n<p>****Violence is wrong.  I am in no way endorsing the use of violence as a means of conflict resolution. If you have to punch someone in the kidney, be polite about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part Science and I get along well. But sometimes it steps out of line. Everyone, go to Wikipedia right now*. Look up Brontosaurus. Go ahead, type it in. Make sure you spell it correctly. Then hit return. Were you as shocked as I was? Science has stolen the Brontosaurus away from us.** [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[603,604,301,606,607,605,156,407],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-brontosaurus","tag-dinosaur","tag-dinosaurs","tag-fossils","tag-kidney-punch","tag-paleo-jerkoffs","tag-science","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}