{"id":560,"date":"2008-07-15T03:32:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=560"},"modified":"2008-07-15T03:32:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:32:51","slug":"gettin-plushy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/560","title":{"rendered":"Gettin&#039; Plushy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s with the plush toys?  John at <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2008\/07\/10\/want-a-nice-gift-for-that-special-someone\/\">Cosmic Variance<\/a> displays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.particlezoo.net\/\">&#8220;The Particle Zoo&#8221;<\/a> and then Chad at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/links_for_20080714.php\">Uncertain Principles<\/a> goes all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squishable.com\/s\/\">squishy with some animal toys,<\/a> presumably for futurebaby.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta say, the fundamental particles creep me out a little \u2014 x-ed out eyes signifies &#8220;dead&#8221; in cartooning, and it upsets my sensibilities that you can purchase individual quarks, and in any color.  What kind of message is that to send to a young physicist, getting asymptotic freedom and color charge wrong right out of the gate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s with the plush toys? John at Cosmic Variance displays &#8220;The Particle Zoo&#8221; and then Chad at Uncertain Principles goes all squishy with some animal toys, presumably for futurebaby. I gotta say, the fundamental particles creep me out a little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/560\">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":[35,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}