{"id":19705,"date":"2013-04-04T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2013-04-03T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:45:03","slug":"april-1st-meets-scientific-illiteracy-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/april-1st-meets-scientific-illiteracy-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"April 1st meets scientific illiteracy in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there is dihydrogen monoxide streaming out of the water taps in Fort Myers, Florida? Apparently a lot of radio listeners thought this was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/entertainment\/2013\/04\/florida-djs-april-fools-water-joke\/63798\/\" target=\"_blank\">very bad thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Florida country radio morning-show hosts Val St. John and Scott Fish are currently serving indefinite suspensions and possibly worse over a successful April Fools&#8217; Day prank. They told their listeners that &#8220;dihydrogen monoxide&#8221; was coming out of the taps throughout the Fort Myers area. Dihydrogen monoxide is water.<\/p>\n<p>The popular deejays are mainly in all this trouble (potentially of a felony level) because their listeners panicked so much \u2014 about the molecular makeup of their drinking water, however unwittingly \u2014 that Lee County utility officials had to issue a county-wide statement calming the fears of chemistry challenged Floridians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there is dihydrogen monoxide streaming out of the water taps in Fort Myers, Florida? Apparently a lot of radio listeners thought this was a very bad thing: Florida country radio morning-show hosts Val St. John and Scott Fish are currently serving indefinite suspensions and possibly worse over a successful April Fools&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[57,28,13],"tags":[872,156,120,795],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-usa","tag-chemistry","tag-fail","tag-florida","tag-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-57P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19706,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions\/19706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}