{"id":1391,"date":"2013-07-14T12:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T12:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2013-07-14T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T12:09:53","slug":"einstein-was-full-of-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/07\/einstein-was-full-of-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein was full of crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein defined insanity as &#8216;doing the same thing over and over and expecting different outcomes each time&#8217;. In fact quite a lot of the time the outcomes are different.<br \/>\nThe sort of outcomes I am especially interested in are the answers &#8216;yes&#8217; and &#8216;no&#8217;. Quite often I am told &#8216;no&#8217; by customer services. After some screaming and shouting, having the phone put down on me, swearing, speaking to several representatives, supervisors, managers for sometimes hours (I really enjoy it), quite often I am told &#8216;yes&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein defined insanity as &#8216;doing the same thing over and over and expecting different outcomes each time&#8217;. In fact quite a lot of the time the outcomes are different. The sort of outcomes I am especially interested in are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/07\/einstein-was-full-of-crap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-mr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":449,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/wouldt-it-be-better-if-we-all-said-no\/","url_meta":{"origin":1391,"position":0},"title":"Wouldn&#8217;t it Be Better if we all said no?","author":"taxicle","date":"December 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Whatever it is. 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