{"id":13921,"date":"2013-07-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13921"},"modified":"2013-07-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:00:00","slug":"the-dark-side-of-cat-juggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13921","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side of Cat Juggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2013\/07\/26\/cat-turning-the-19th-century-scientific-cat-dropping-craze\/\">Cat-turning: the 19th-century scientific cat-dropping craze!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One thing I\u2019ve learn from studying the history of science is that scientists are human beings.  Often incredibly weird, weird human beings.  For example: in the mid-to-late-1800s, an exciting era in which the foundations of electromagnetic theory were set and the electromagnetic nature of light was discovered, a number of the greatest minds in physics were also preoccupied with a rather different problem.<\/p>\n<p>Dropping cats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat-turning: the 19th-century scientific cat-dropping craze! One thing I\u2019ve learn from studying the history of science is that scientists are human beings. Often incredibly weird, weird human beings. For example: in the mid-to-late-1800s, an exciting era in which the foundations &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13921\">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-13921","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\/13921","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=13921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}