{"id":401,"date":"2008-06-08T04:40:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T09:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/401"},"modified":"2008-06-08T04:40:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T09:40:46","slug":"did-somebody-step-on-a-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/401","title":{"rendered":"Did Somebody Step On a Duck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Is that what you want, Mary?  A farter<\/em>?&#8221;  Tucker\/Norman, &#8220;There&#8217;s Something About Mary&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingamericanhistory.org\/library\/index.asp?document=470\">To the Royal Academy of Farting<\/a>, Benjamin Franklin, c. 1781.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That the permitting this Air to escape and mix with the Atmosphere, is usually offensive to the Company, from the fetid Smell that accompanies it.<\/p>\n<p>That all well-bred People therefore, to avoid giving such Offence, forcibly restrain the Efforts of Nature to discharge that Wind.<\/p>\n<p>That so retain\u2019d contrary to Nature, it not only gives frequently great present Pain, but occasions future Diseases, such as habitual Cholics, Ruptures, Tympanies, &amp;c. often destructive of the Constitution, &amp; sometimes of Life itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what the impact would have been on social norms if certain gases weren&#8217;t invisible.<\/p>\n<p>Update:  Another, erm, <a href=\"http:\/\/sandeepmakam.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/monroe-fart-power.html\">voice heard from.<\/a>  Science World toots up on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is that what you want, Mary? A farter?&#8221; Tucker\/Norman, &#8220;There&#8217;s Something About Mary&#8221; To the Royal Academy of Farting, Benjamin Franklin, c. 1781. That the permitting this Air to escape and mix with the Atmosphere, is usually offensive to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/401\">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":[21,35,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-other-science","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}