{"id":545,"date":"2012-09-18T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T22:34:11","slug":"thats-one-bad-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one bad penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/2948-can-a-penny-on-the-tracks-derail-a-train.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Train tracks\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d9\/Rail_semaphore_koscierzyna.jpg\" alt=\"Train tracks\" width=\"154\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Rafal Konkolewski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mrs. O\u2019Leary\u2019s cow; David\u2019s sling-stone; the thorn in a lion\u2019s paw.<\/p>\n<p>We relish tales of the mighty being felled by seemingly insignificant objects. But could a penny placed on railroad tracks really derail a train, or is this myth just a load of pig iron?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/2948-can-a-penny-on-the-tracks-derail-a-train.html\" target=\"_blank\">Can a Penny on the Tracks Derail a Train?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. O\u2019Leary\u2019s cow; David\u2019s sling-stone; the thorn in a lion\u2019s paw. We relish tales of the mighty being felled by seemingly insignificant objects. But could a penny placed on railroad tracks really derail a train, or is this myth just a load of pig iron? Can a Penny on the Tracks Derail a Train?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,94,74,3,43],"tags":[425,426,364],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-engineering","category-physics","category-science","category-travel","tag-myth","tag-trains","tag-urban-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}