{"id":4001,"date":"2009-10-30T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2009-10-30T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:00:53","slug":"just-kidding-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4001","title":{"rendered":"Young Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I noted last summer when the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/567\">STS-124 shuttle astronauts visited<\/a> was that the kids asked some great questions.  And that&#8217;s the theme of a new Boing-Boing column:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/26\/submit-your-toddlers.html\">Submit your toddler&#8217;s science questions!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The child does not have to be your own. Questions do not have to be cute or &#8220;Kids Say the Darndest Things-ish&#8221; in any way. They do not even have to be current. (Baby boomers, got a query that&#8217;s been nagging at you since 1975? I don&#8217;t care if the toddler is now in their 30s, send the question!) All I&#8217;m looking for are things you can&#8217;t answer off the top of your head and don&#8217;t feel like researching yourself. Easy stuff!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/27\/science-question-fro-1.html\">Do turtles have eyelashes?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I noted last summer when the STS-124 shuttle astronauts visited was that the kids asked some great questions. And that&#8217;s the theme of a new Boing-Boing column: Submit your toddler&#8217;s science questions! The child does not have to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4001\">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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","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=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}