{"id":1556,"date":"2007-07-03T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T08:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/03\/not-your-parents-summer-camp\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T08:41:48","slug":"not-your-parents-summer-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/03\/not-your-parents-summer-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Parents&#8217; Summer Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <cite>New York Times<\/cite> today has a story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/03\/science\/03boom.html?ex=1341115200&#038;en=b468e86ca8289dab&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">different sort of summer camp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Students with a passion for all things explosive and proof of United States citizenship pay a $450 fee that covers food, lodging and incidentals like dynamite. In the course of a week, the 22 students at this session set off a wall of fire, blasted water out of a pond, blew up a tree stump and obliterated a watermelon. They set off explosive charges in the school&#8217;s mine and finished off the week by creating their own fireworks show for their parents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Summer Explosives Camp actually feeds into a program at the University of Missouri in Rolla, that&#8217;s designed to train people to do blasting for mining and demolition, and they do discuss safety issues at length. But still, a summer camp where you&#8217;re <strong>encouraged<\/strong> to blow things up sounds pretty cool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times today has a story about a different sort of summer camp: Students with a passion for all things explosive and proof of United States citizenship pay a $450 fee that covers food, lodging and incidentals like dynamite. In the course of a week, the 22 students at this session set off&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/03\/not-your-parents-summer-camp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not Your Parents&#8217; Summer Camp<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}