{"id":7242,"date":"2020-03-29T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7242"},"modified":"2020-03-29T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:09:42","slug":"337o-children-stories-about-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/337o-children-stories-about-science\/","title":{"rendered":"337O: Children Stories About Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I remember two stories, and I believe they may be from the same book.\u00a0 One story is of some kids that get &#8220;hired&#8221; by a local scrap metal company to figure out how to crack open metal cannonballs.\u00a0 They first try burying it in the snow, but find that the snow acts as an insulator, preventing the cannonball from getting cold enough to crack.\u00a0 The kids then re-try by leaving the cannonball in the open (at least that&#8217;s what I remember), at which point the metal is cold enough to crack.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The other story also involves children, this time on a beach.\u00a0 They collect up seawater, rig up a distilling system, and then boil the water to make steam.\u00a0 The steam is collected up as drinkable water.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Thanks in advance!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember two stories, and I believe they may be from the same book.\u00a0 One story is of some kids that get &#8220;hired&#8221; by a local scrap metal company to figure out how to crack open metal cannonballs.\u00a0 They first try burying it in the snow, but find that the snow acts as an insulator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,19],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}