{"id":11911,"date":"2012-06-19T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2012-06-19T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T08:00:45","slug":"walking-into-a-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11911","title":{"rendered":"Walking Into a Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crackingtheenigma.blogspot.com.au\/2012\/05\/clouds.html\">Clouds<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of my favourite bits about being a dad is, every now and then, just casually blowing my little boy\u2019s mind &#8211; with science. Last weekend, we were out for a stroll when he came out with \u201cI wish I had a rocket so I could go and stand on a cloud\u201d. Sensing an opening, I explained that clouds were made of tiny drops of water that hang in the air, so you wouldn\u2019t ever be able to stand on one. But that, when it\u2019s misty, that\u2019s just a cloud that\u2019s really low down on the ground, so it\u2019s actually very easy to stand inside a cloud. That pleased him, as he acknowledged his chances of owning a rocket any time soon were sadly marginal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds One of my favourite bits about being a dad is, every now and then, just casually blowing my little boy\u2019s mind &#8211; with science. Last weekend, we were out for a stroll when he came out with \u201cI wish &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11911\">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":[15,39,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","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=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}