{"id":1570,"date":"2018-07-16T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:04:49","slug":"detour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"DETOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/fc\/DetourPoster1.jpg?_=20090403012013\" width=\"245\" height=\"192\" \/>Thank you for visiting my site! Unfortunately, work demands currently make it impossible for me to keep the content here fresh, but I would love it if you would come and read my current stories at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/author\/nicholas_gerbis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>American Scientist<\/em> magazine<\/a> or my classic oldies at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kjzz.org\/people\/nicholas-gerbis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KJZZ public radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also invite you to follow me at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nicholasgerbis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/ngerbis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MuckRack <\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ngerbis.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlueSky<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ngerbis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"me noopener\">Mastodon <\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">|<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NGerbis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter(X)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for visiting my site! Unfortunately, work demands currently make it impossible for me to keep the content here fresh, but I would love it if you would come and read my current stories at American Scientist magazine or my classic oldies at KJZZ public radio. I also invite you to follow me at: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DETOUR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}