{"id":2417,"date":"2012-05-24T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2018-10-28T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T22:00:05","slug":"everything-falls-at-the-same-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=2417","title":{"rendered":"Everything falls at the same speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Colin Gibson<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/colingibson\" target=\"_blank\">follow him on Twitter<\/a>)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs clouds covered the sky, hiding the sun from warming the street, four boys ran down a footpath chasing someone&#8217;s leather ball. Rolling downhill, this ball followed Newton&#8217;s declaration upon gravity, the potential of kinetic, bouncing along and down, and down, falling ever at Isaac&#8217;s word.<\/p>\n<p>Some way down the hill an old man stepped outdoors from a hardware store as the ball rolled past his feet, followed hotly by four chasing boys. <em>Run!<\/em> yelled the old man, <em>run!<\/em> he screamed, cheering them on in their fight against Newton&#8217;s gravity. But futile was their trying, unheeding of effort, all objects fall at the same speed.<\/p>\n<p>Icarus from the sky, an apple from a tree, angels from Heaven, or the beloved from grace; everything falls at the same speed. The ball fell, and fell, and fell again, chased by the four boys. Stars from the sky, a rocket from space, the brown haired-boy as car-shattered limbs fall from a bruised trajectory across the afternoon traffic&#8217;s intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Earth&#8217;s surface cooled where clouds hid the sunshine, a darker sky than the day before. A leather ball continued to roll somewhere in that town, heedless of efforts to defy gravity. Tears from a mother&#8217;s face fell upon freshly dug ground.<\/p>\n<p>Everything falls at the same speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Colin Gibson (follow him on Twitter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkey","tag-colin-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}