{"id":10527,"date":"2013-07-18T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2013-07-18T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T23:15:40","slug":"separating-you-and-me-4-74-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10527","title":{"rendered":"Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Adding a new chapter to the research that cemented the phrase \u201csix degrees of separation\u201d into the language, scientists at <a title=\"More articles about Facebook.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/facebook_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Facebook<\/a> and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in the world was not six but 4.74.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/22\/technology\/between-you-and-me-4-74-degrees.html?_r=1&amp;\">Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding a new chapter to the research that cemented the phrase \u201csix degrees of separation\u201d into the language, scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1173,180,247],"class_list":["post-10527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-graph-theory","tag-math","tag-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10530,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions\/10530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}