{"id":19639,"date":"2025-12-23T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=19639"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:02:55","slug":"black-holes-and-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/black-holes-and-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Black holes and speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A supermassive black hole<\/strong> has been kicked out of its galaxy of origin and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/black-holes\/james-webb-space-telescope-confirms-1st-runaway-supermassive-black-hole-rocketing-through-cosmic-owl-galaxies-at-2-2-million-mph-it-boggles-the-mind\">is steaming through space forming stars in its wake<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I deleted the LinkedIn app from my phone<\/strong> and now check it the site in a browser instead. And isn\u2019t it interesting that my feed is now primarily people I know and have actual conversations with? Interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I have indeed won the birth lottery,<\/strong> being born in Canada. If I was to play again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givingwhatwecan.org\/birth-lottery?utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=124607951&amp;utm_content=124607951&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">here are my (or your) chances.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue black holes, hacking LinkedIn and playing the birth lottery. <\/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":"Black holes and speculation","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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-56L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19645,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}