{"id":80,"date":"2014-05-05T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2014-08-06T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:14:35","slug":"the-infinite-monkey-theorem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/?page_id=80","title":{"rendered":"The Infinite Monkey Theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Infinite Monkey Theorem\u2019 states that a monkey hitting random keys on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually type any given text, such as a complete William Shakespeare play.<\/p>\n<p>To find out if this was true, I applied for a government research grant and then set thirty-five thousand monkeys off on the task.<\/p>\n<p>After nineteen years, one monkey brought me a complete play, except he had \u2018Help Me\u2019 as the title instead of \u2018Hamlet\u2019. That was pretty close, but I will keep the experiment going until one of the little primates gets it totally verbatim.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read the next drabble &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/?page_id=585\" title=\"Newspaper Headlines\">Newspaper Headlines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Infinite Monkey Theorem\u2019 states that a monkey hitting random keys on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually type any given text, such as a complete William Shakespeare play. To find out if this was true, I applied for a government research grant and then set thirty-five thousand monkeys off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":78,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/512"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}