{"id":1118,"date":"2007-02-13T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/13\/i-told-you-bout-the-swans-that\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T07:37:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T07:37:21","slug":"i-told-you-bout-the-swans-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/13\/i-told-you-bout-the-swans-that\/","title":{"rendered":"I Told You &#8216;Bout the Swans, That They Live in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-d9a98de64519b1d8e8efa791e315c736-21ice3.jpg\" alt=\"i-d9a98de64519b1d8e8efa791e315c736-21ice3.jpg\" \/>The guys over at the World&#8217;s Fair have created an <a href=\"http:\/\/scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/\">Order of Science Scouts<\/a>, for those who find themselves longing for merit badges to display on their blogs. Such as, for example, this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>The &#8220;has frozen stuff just to see what happens&#8221; badge (LEVEL III)<\/b><br \/>\nIn which the recipient has frozen something in liquid nitrogen for the sake of scientific curiosity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re a bit too bio-focussed&#8211; too much gooey stuff, not enough big explosions&#8211; but some of them are pretty entertaining. If you&#8217;re looking for some graphics to brighten up your web page, go have a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(As for the title, the <cite>Treasure of the Sierra Madre<\/cite> reference was a little too obvious&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys over at the World&#8217;s Fair have created an Order of Science Scouts, for those who find themselves longing for merit badges to display on their blogs. Such as, for example, this one: The &#8220;has frozen stuff just to see what happens&#8221; badge (LEVEL III) In which the recipient has frozen something in liquid&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/13\/i-told-you-bout-the-swans-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Told You &#8216;Bout the Swans, That They Live in the Park<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","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=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}