{"id":296,"date":"2011-07-16T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-09-16T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:06:41","slug":"because-if-it-were-green-we-wouldnt-know-where-to-stop-mowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Because if it were green, we wouldn&#8217;t know where to stop mowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/nature\/climate-weather\/atmospheric\/sky.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Blue sky\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0d\/Blue_Sky.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>Why is the sky blue? Everyone supposedly knows, but just about everybody gets it partially wrong. Don\u2019t feel bad, though; the answer has so many parts, it took philosophers and scientists from Aristotle to Maxwell to answer it.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, it\u2019s a bit of a trick question &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/nature\/climate-weather\/atmospheric\/sky.htm\" target=\"popup\">Why is the sky blue?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the sky blue? Everyone supposedly knows, but just about everybody gets it partially wrong. Don\u2019t feel bad, though; the answer has so many parts, it took philosophers and scientists from Aristotle to Maxwell to answer it. Besides, it\u2019s a bit of a trick question &#8230; Why is the sky blue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,54,50,74,3],"tags":[136,133,134,17,140,137,139,25,135,138],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-electromagnetism","category-geoscience","category-physics","category-science","tag-aristotle","tag-atmosphere","tag-dust","tag-environment","tag-hermann-von-helmholtz","tag-isaac-newton","tag-james-clerk-maxwell","tag-nature","tag-smog","tag-thomas-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}