{"id":57,"date":"2007-01-17T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"History of Murphy&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So who was Murphy, anyway?  You know, the guy who said &#8220;Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong,&#8221; the succinct statement of the philosophy of overengineering.  I\u2019ve always wondered, but never heard anyone tell the story.  Until, that is, I was perusing some back issues of the Annals of Improbable Research, and came across an article by Nick Spark, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/airchives\/paperair\/volume9\/v9i5\/murphy\/murphy0.html\">The Fastest Man on Earth:  Why everything you know about Murphy\u2019s Law is wrong<\/a>.\u201d  It\u2019s an absolutely fascinating tale \u2013 something anyone who has ever related to Murphy\u2019s Law, or used Murphy\u2019s name in vain, should read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So who was Murphy, anyway? You know, the guy who said &#8220;Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong,&#8221; the succinct statement of the philosophy of overengineering. I\u2019ve always wondered, but never heard anyone tell the story. Until, that is, I was perusing some back issues of the Annals of Improbable Research, and came across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}