{"id":24101,"date":"2022-02-11T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T01:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24101"},"modified":"2022-05-09T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:34:45","slug":"scientific-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24101","title":{"rendered":"Scientific methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother tells me that when I was 3 years old there used to be a problem in our apartment. The ceiling in the bathroom was often wet and she couldn&#8217;t figure out why.<\/p>\n<p>One day she was in the bathroom, I was there with her, and she wondered out loud &#8220;Why is the ceiling in the bathroom always so wet?&#8221; Apparently, according to her, I said &#8220;I show you mommy,&#8221; and I walked up to the sink.<\/p>\n<p>I turned on the tap and I put my finger under the nozzle so that the water was directed upward. It sprayed all over the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>I have no memory whatsoever of this incident. However I did grow up to be a scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother tells me that when I was 3 years old there used to be a problem in our apartment. The ceiling in the bathroom was often wet and she couldn&#8217;t figure out why. One day she was in the bathroom, I was there with her, and she wondered out loud &#8220;Why is the ceiling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientific methods&#8221;<\/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\/24101"}],"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=24101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24338,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24101\/revisions\/24338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}