{"id":1186,"date":"2007-03-02T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/02\/not-that-rural\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T09:29:12","slug":"not-that-rural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/02\/not-that-rural\/","title":{"rendered":"Not That Rural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve noted many times, I grew up out in the sticks, in a small town which nonetheless has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Point,_New_York\">Wikipedia page<\/a>. I should note, though, that I am not hick enough to have been the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2007\/03\/how_to_tip_a_cow.php\">ScienceBlogger to discover<\/a> this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article586737.ece\">article about cutting-edge physics research<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, and her student Tracy Boechler have conducted a study on the physics of cow-tipping. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Boechler, now a trainee forensics analyst for the Royal Canadian Mounted Corps, concluded in her initial report that a cow standing with its legs straight would require five people to exert the required force to bowl it over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor have I ever attempted to tip a cow. When we started to approach that level of boredom, we usually opted for playing with fire, rather than tormenting livestock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve noted many times, I grew up out in the sticks, in a small town which nonetheless has a Wikipedia page. I should note, though, that I am not hick enough to have been the ScienceBlogger to discover this article about cutting-edge physics research: Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/02\/not-that-rural\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not That Rural<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}