{"id":1174,"date":"2008-12-31T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2008-12-31T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T15:34:28","slug":"the-mouse-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1174","title":{"rendered":"The Mouse Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Man:\tWell&#8230; I was about seventeen and some mates and me went to a party, and, er&#8230; we had quite a lot to drink&#8230; and then some of the fellows there &#8230; started handing &#8230; cheese around &#8230; and well just out of curiosity I tried a bit &#8230; and well that was that.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer:\tAnd what else did these fellows do?<\/p>\n<p>Man:\tWell some of them started dressing up as mice a bit &#8230; and then when they&#8217;d got the costumes on they started &#8230; squeaking.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, wait.  Wrong source of squeaking.  It&#8217;s winter here, so we&#8217;re talking about snow.<\/p>\n<p>ScienceGeekGirl discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/29\/why-does-snow-crunch-under-your-feet\/\">Why does snow squeak when it\u2019s cold?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More snow-related stuff:  Why does snow sparkle?  <a href=\"http:\/\/morningcoffeephysics.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/25\/im-dreaming-of-a-white-and-sparkling-christmas\/\">I\u2019m dreaming of a white and sparkling christmas<\/a> at Morning Coffee Physics<\/p>\n<p>Update:  I shoveled some squeaky white stuff this afternoon.  Just as I finished, it started coming down heavy again.  Prediction: 2&#8243;-4&#8243;, actual was about 6&#8243;.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man: Well&#8230; I was about seventeen and some mates and me went to a party, and, er&#8230; we had quite a lot to drink&#8230; and then some of the fellows there &#8230; started handing &#8230; cheese around &#8230; and well &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1174\">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":[39],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","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=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}