{"id":238,"date":"2008-04-24T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/238"},"modified":"2008-04-24T03:50:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T08:50:41","slug":"taking-one-for-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/238","title":{"rendered":"Taking One For The Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/score\/article\/2008-04\/cup-stops-here\">The Cup Stops Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former MLB player Mark Littel <del datetime=\"2008-04-24T08:50:26+00:00\">puts his balls on the line<\/del> provides empirical data in a kinematics experiment to demonstrate the effectiveness of a cup.<\/p>\n<p>Cinematic commentary:  Neither the acting nor the dialogue are as good as in the classic &#8220;George C. Scott hit in the groin with a football&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t hear anything as good as, &#8220;Oh, my groin!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cup Stops Here Former MLB player Mark Littel puts his balls on the line provides empirical data in a kinematics experiment to demonstrate the effectiveness of a cup. Cinematic commentary: Neither the acting nor the dialogue are as good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/238\">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":[39,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}