{"id":334,"date":"2006-06-20T13:53:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/20\/quote-of-the-day-1\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T13:53:50","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/20\/quote-of-the-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/larabeaton.livejournal.com\/208526.html\">Lara Beaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some people are like Slinkies &#8211; They serve no useful purpose, but they do give you a smile when you push them down a flight of stairs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Of course, anybody in physics education would probably quibble with the statement that Slinkies are useless, but I&#8217;m willing to overlook that for a well-turned phrase&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/challenge.php?id=146\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lara Beaton: Some people are like Slinkies &#8211; They serve no useful purpose, but they do give you a smile when you push them down a flight of stairs. (Of course, anybody in physics education would probably quibble with the statement that Slinkies are useless, but I&#8217;m willing to overlook that for a well-turned&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/20\/quote-of-the-day-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Day<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}