{"id":62,"date":"2007-09-13T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-09-13T22:07:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T05:07:14","slug":"okay-this-is-completely-bogus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Okay, this is completely bogus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/comics\/Lab-Bratz\/2007\/09\/2830.php\" title=\"Lab Bratz comic hosted at bbspot.com\">BBspot<\/a> are callously spreading microbiological misinformation (click for full-size):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/comics\/Lab-Bratz\/2007\/09\/2830.php\" title=\"Lab Bratz comic hosted at bbspot.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/Images\/Comics\/2007\/LabBratzEp-037-.jpg\" title=\"from http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/comics\/Lab-Bratz\/2007\/09\/2830.php\" height=\"329\" width=\"512\" target=\"imgwindow\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just plain irresponsible and utterly wrong.  Surely everyone can see the obvious problem here, right?<\/p>\n<p>When this happens, the flame is <strong>blue<\/strong>, not orange.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, or so I&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n<p>(If it isn&#8217;t obvious &#8211; what you <span class=\"moreinfo\" title=\"besides squeal like a startled small child\">do in this situation<\/span> is calmly take the spreader out and set it on your nice, flameproof benchtop, and set something non-fragile and non-flammable on top of the flaming jar of alcohol, which will then go out quickly as the oxygen gets used up.  All the labs I&#8217;ve been in lately use &#8220;canning&#8221; jars for the alcohol in this application, complete with lids which can be set on top to extinguish the flame.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at BBspot are callously spreading microbiological misinformation (click for full-size): This is just plain irresponsible and utterly wrong. Surely everyone can see the obvious problem here, right? When this happens, the flame is blue, not orange. Uh, or so I&#8217;ve heard. (If it isn&#8217;t obvious &#8211; what you do in this situation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Okay, this is completely bogus&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,6,5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grossly-oversimplified-science","category-methods","category-microbiology","category-nerdity","category-play-with-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}