{"id":1097,"date":"2007-02-06T20:47:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/06\/requiescat-in-pace\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T20:47:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T20:47:16","slug":"requiescat-in-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/06\/requiescat-in-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiescat in Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-12d4e0d2c42be2f885f7af3f64d8d510-sm_SDL5400.jpg\" alt=\"i-12d4e0d2c42be2f885f7af3f64d8d510-sm_SDL5400.jpg\" \/><strong>SDL 5401-G1, October 2001- February 6, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SDL 5401-G1 (&#8220;Sid&#8221; to friends) died today of static shock, after five years of service in a grating-locked diode laser system. He had survived three lab floods, and more than a dozen power outages, but succombed to electric shock following a mishap with a Tesla coil.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by three siblings from the same batch, one of whom has already taken his place in the grating-locked laser mount. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you send research grants.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sic transit gloria laseri.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SDL 5401-G1, October 2001- February 6, 2007 SDL 5401-G1 (&#8220;Sid&#8221; to friends) died today of static shock, after five years of service in a grating-locked diode laser system. He had survived three lab floods, and more than a dozen power outages, but succombed to electric shock following a mishap with a Tesla coil. He is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/06\/requiescat-in-pace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Requiescat in Pace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-my_lab","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}