{"id":1008,"date":"2004-01-02T22:06:04","date_gmt":"2004-01-03T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2013-11-27T22:48:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T03:48:51","slug":"murphys-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Murphy&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows Murphy&#8217;s Law: &#8220;If anything can go wrong, it will&#8221;. Right? Well, maybe not exactly. Who was Murphy, anyway? Did he really exist? Did he really say that? According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/airchives\/paperair\/volume9\/v9i5\/murphy\/murphy0.html\" target=\"Offsite\">article<\/a> I stumbled onto, he really did exist (there&#8217;s even a picture of him), but exactly what he said, and what the law means, is apparently debatable. Ironically, the author mentions that at one point, he thought &#8220;Murphy\u2019s Law might be something of an urban legend &#8212; like the story about the guy who strapped rocket bottles to his car and accidentally launched himself into a mountainside&#8221;. This is ironic because the research leading to Murphy&#8217;s Law bears a strong resemblance to what claims to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketcarstory.com\/\" target=\"Offsite\">true rocket car story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows Murphy&#8217;s Law: &#8220;If anything can go wrong, it will&#8221;. Right? Well, maybe not exactly. Who was Murphy, anyway? Did he really exist? Did he really say that? According to an article I stumbled onto, he really did exist (there&#8217;s even a picture of him), but exactly what he said, and what the law&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=1008\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murphy&#8217;s Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-gg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}