{"id":1363,"date":"2009-12-12T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2009-12-12T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T19:17:34","slug":"i-remember-now-i-remember-how-it-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/i-remember-now-i-remember-how-it-started\/","title":{"rendered":"I remember now; I remember how it started."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s being tired, because you&#8217;ve been cramming information about jets, electrons, muons, photons, and all manner of other things yet unidentified in your head. It&#8217;s the swelling in your eyes because you&#8217;ve been staring at code, a sheriff and an outlaw locking eyes on a dusty main street, each knowing that only one of you will make it through this alive. It&#8217;s the flutter in your heart when they declare stable beams, as if this time when the event display lights up with a new collision it will be in time, a real collision, filled with jets and muons and everything that makes a detector glow like it&#8217;s Christmas. It&#8217;s the joy of thinking you know no one in the experiment and finding out that you seem to know everyone, and they remember you. It&#8217;s too much wine with dinner, it&#8217;s too little water when you travel, it&#8217;s too small a bathroom in your hostel. It&#8217;s Guinness in an Irish pub in France and a local power-trio belting out acoustic versions of <em>Alice in Chains<\/em>. It&#8217;s French and German and Russian and Chinese and UK English and American English and everything in-between, all coming at you in maelstrom of expression and emotion. It&#8217;s having those first insights into simple things that may lead to a dead end, or something wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s being tired, because you&#8217;ve been cramming information about jets, electrons, muons, photons, and all manner of other things yet unidentified in your head. It&#8217;s the swelling in your eyes because you&#8217;ve been staring at code, a sheriff and an outlaw locking eyes on a dusty main street, each knowing that only one of you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cern-travelogue","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}