{"id":12957,"date":"2013-08-26T21:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T02:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2013-08-26T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T02:56:49","slug":"new-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=12957","title":{"rendered":"New toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, by coincidence, I received several new toys simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Well, “toys” might not be the best word. More like “stuff I ordered on-line to do science experiments.” They are all pictured in the photo below, arrayed artistically on my living room floor:<\/p>\n


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In the center are two magnifying glasses. The one on the left is 2.5″ in diameter and has a 3x lens. The one on the right is 2″ in diameter and has a 4x lens.<\/p>\n

Below the first magnifying glass are four ring magnets. Each is 1\/2″ in diameter and 1\/2″ long. They are kind of hard to separate.<\/p>\n

To the far right are two bigger ring magnets. Each is 1\/2″ in diameter and 1″ long. These are very<\/i> hard to separate. And if you do manage to separate them, don’t get your fingers caught between them when they try to snap back together.<\/p>\n

In the upper left, looking deceptively like a single long cylinder, are ten little ring magnets arranged end to end. Each of these is 1\/2″ in diameter but only 1\/8″ long. I’m guessing that these are the ones I’ll end up using my experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, by coincidence, I received several new toys simultaneously. Well, “toys” might not be the best word. More like “stuff I ordered on-line to do science experiments.” They are all pictured in the photo below, arrayed artistically on my living room floor:   In the center are two magnifying glasses. The one on the left … Continue reading “New toys”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12969,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/12969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}