{"id":561,"date":"2012-09-21T16:44:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2012-11-05T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:10:35","slug":"the-ins-and-outs-of-the-antipodean-swirlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"The ins and outs of the antipodean swirlie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/2910-does-water-in-a-drain-go-a-different-direction-in-the-southern-hemisphere.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Maelstrom\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/45\/Maelstrom-Clarke.jpg\" alt=\"Maelstrom\" width=\"176\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maelstrom by Henry Clark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you\u2019re an Aussie dag and some bogan is giving you a dunnyflushing, why not spend the time constructively? Watch which way the water swirls down the bog, and then call one of your nerdier Yank mates and compare notes on swirlie physics. Will this settle the age-old argument? Hardly. But, hey, it\u2019s something to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/2910-does-water-in-a-drain-go-a-different-direction-in-the-southern-hemisphere.html\" target=\"_blank\">Does Water in a Drain Go a Different Direction in the Southern Hemisphere?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re an Aussie dag and some bogan is giving you a dunnyflushing, why not spend the time constructively? Watch which way the water swirls down the bog, and then call one of your nerdier Yank mates and compare notes on swirlie physics. Will this settle the age-old argument? Hardly. But, hey, it\u2019s something to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The ins and outs of the antipodean swirlie<\/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":[185,63,50,4,74,3],"tags":[464,80,51],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-culture","category-geoscience","category-history","category-physics","category-science","tag-coriolis-effect","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}