{"id":9582,"date":"2013-06-02T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9582"},"modified":"2013-06-01T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T20:54:09","slug":"exploding-glass-prince-ruperts-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9582","title":{"rendered":"Exploding Glass: Prince Rupert&#8217;s Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone who has worked with glass knows, the material is fascinating.  Glass is fragile, yet it can be extraordinarily strong.  This is a seeming contradiction, but one that makes sense if you start to understand what makes glass crack.<\/p>\n<p>Via Phil at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2013\/06\/01\/prince_rupert_s_drops_glass_droplets_exploding.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Astronomy<\/a>, a truly awesome video on Prince Rupert&#8217;s Drop, a simple construct of glass that exhibits the strength and weakness of glass in a very visual way.<\/p>\n<p>Science is cool!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xe-f4gokRBs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone who has worked with glass knows, the material is fascinating. Glass is fragile, yet it can be extraordinarily strong. This is a seeming contradiction, but one that makes sense if you start to understand what makes glass crack. Via Phil at Bad Astronomy, a truly awesome video on Prince Rupert&#8217;s Drop, a simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploding Glass: Prince Rupert&#8217;s Drop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1128],"tags":[277,1130,53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}