{"id":155,"date":"2008-03-30T04:51:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T09:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/155"},"modified":"2008-03-30T04:51:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T09:51:33","slug":"the-ralph-mellish-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/155","title":{"rendered":"The Ralph Mellish Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scarcely able to believe his eyes, Ralph Mellish looked down.  But one glance confirmed his suspicions.  Behind a bush, on the side of the road, there was *no* severed arm.  No dismembered trunk of a man in his late fifties.  No head in a bag.  Nothing.  Not a sausage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different: a water balloon <em>not<\/em> exploding in high-speed<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XngQJzAmVm8?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XngQJzAmVm8?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/talklikeaphysicist.com\/2008\/a-water-balloon-not-exploding-in-high-speed\/\">Talk Like a Physicist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarcely able to believe his eyes, Ralph Mellish looked down. But one glance confirmed his suspicions. Behind a bush, on the side of the road, there was *no* severed arm. No dismembered trunk of a man in his late fifties. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}