{"id":340,"date":"2007-03-23T01:13:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=340"},"modified":"2007-03-23T01:13:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:13:49","slug":"silly_string_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Silly String saves lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that American and British troops use Silly String to detect the tripwires of booby traps? Neither did I, until I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silly_String\">Wikipedia article<\/a> about it.<br \/>\nUPDATE: Here&#8217;s a video about an effort to keep the troops supplied with this stuff.<br \/>\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/player.swf\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"autostart=false&#038;token=940_1192540141\" scale=\"showall\" name=\"index\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that American and British troops use Silly String to detect the tripwires of booby traps?<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}