{"id":712,"date":"2006-06-05T15:41:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T15:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2006-06-05T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T15:41:30","slug":"mentos-and-diet-coke-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/mentos-and-diet-coke-extravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentos and Diet Coke Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about your home science experiments people.  I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/08\/diet_coke_mentos_rap.html\">a post<\/a> on Boing Boing about this &#8220;scientific&#8221; oddity, which led this intrepid reporter to do some serious (ok about 20 seconds on Google) digging into this incredible phenomenon.  Here are the fruits of my labour:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n9HTiXQaR_o\">Slacker<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1QbNAtwWjZE\">kids<\/a> perform the experiment, not bad.<\/p>\n<p>The best display though, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepybird.com\/dcm1.html\">comes here<\/a>.  These guys show some originality, and a budget.  Very nice.  <\/p>\n<p>I had no idea that this benign combination of junk foods could be used for such hilarity.  I&#8217;m thinking that we need to try this at home&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about your home science experiments people. I saw a post on Boing Boing about this &#8220;scientific&#8221; oddity, which led this intrepid reporter to do some serious (ok about 20 seconds on Google) digging into this incredible phenomenon. Here are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/mentos-and-diet-coke-extravaganza\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","category-video-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-bu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}