{"id":508,"date":"2012-08-10T17:05:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2012-08-31T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:26:51","slug":"in-a-microwave-still-waters-run-deep-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"In a microwave, still waters run deep \u2013 and dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/2812-can-water-explode-in-a-microwave.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael Bay's microwave\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/de\/MW_on_fire.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Bay's microwave\" width=\"180\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tick-tock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, yes, microwaves are magic and, yes, they are trying to kill you. Take that seemingly innocuous cup of water that you just heated for your afternoon tea. Shouldn&#8217;t that be bubbling by now? After all, you nuked it for an awfully long time.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, what do you really know about that microwave?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/2812-can-water-explode-in-a-microwave.html\" target=\"_blank\">Can Water Explode in a Microwave?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, yes, microwaves are magic and, yes, they are trying to kill you. Take that seemingly innocuous cup of water that you just heated for your afternoon tea. Shouldn&#8217;t that be bubbling by now? After all, you nuked it for an awfully long time. Come to think of it, what do you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In a microwave, still waters run deep \u2013 and dangerous<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,12,54,74,3,13],"tags":[369,367,372,370,368,371,51],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-explosion","tag-microwave","tag-nucleation","tag-pressure","tag-state","tag-temperature","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}