{"id":14634,"date":"2014-02-04T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14634"},"modified":"2014-02-04T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:00:06","slug":"is-there-anything-the-government-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14634","title":{"rendered":"Is There Anything the Government Can&#039;t Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/02\/03\/conspiracy_debunked_atlanta_snow_doesn_t_melt.html\">Atlanta Storm Was a Government Conspiracy? Snow Way!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is where it gets weird. Some people went outside and made snowballs. Then\u2014and I have no clue who would think to do this in the first place, but there you go\u2014they held a lighter to the snowball. What they claimed then is that the snow didn\u2019t melt and drip away as you\u2019d expect. That\u2019s odd enough, but then they saw scorch marks on the snowball! Ice can\u2019t burn, so why were there black streaks on the snowballs?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally, if nature doesn&#8217;t conform to your preconceived notions, nature must have been compromised somehow.<\/p>\n<p>The stupid, it burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Storm Was a Government Conspiracy? Snow Way! Here is where it gets weird. Some people went outside and made snowballs. Then\u2014and I have no clue who would think to do this in the first place, but there you go\u2014they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634","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=14634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}