{"id":10624,"date":"2011-12-26T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10624"},"modified":"2011-12-26T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T08:00:52","slug":"burning-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10624","title":{"rendered":"Burning for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cocktail-party-physics\/2011\/12\/25\/christmas-with-faraday-the-chemical-history-of-a-candle\/\">Christmas with Faraday: The Chemical History of a Candle<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faraday gave a series of famous Christmas lectures each year at the Royal Institution \u2014 a tradition that continues today. One of the earliest, on the chemistry and physics of flames, became a popular book: The Chemical History of a Candle.<\/p>\n<p>These lectures were a gift that Faraday gave year after year to those who showed up to receive it: the gift of wonder at the natural world that continues to surprise us, even today, with its mysterious workings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas with Faraday: The Chemical History of a Candle Faraday gave a series of famous Christmas lectures each year at the Royal Institution \u2014 a tradition that continues today. One of the earliest, on the chemistry and physics of flames, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}