{"id":7806,"date":"2007-07-03T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T21:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2007-07-03T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T21:06:47","slug":"am-i-too-old-for-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7806","title":{"rendered":"AM I TOO OLD FOR CAMP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/03\/science\/03boom.html?ex=1341115200&#038;en=5a34344a682941aa&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">This<\/a> is a chemist&#8217;s dream come true:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ROLLA, Mo. \u2014 Camp Winnigootchee was never like this.<\/p>\n<p>A group of high school students stood at the edge of a limestone quarry last month as three air horn blasts warned that something big was about to go boom. Across the quarry, with a roar and a cloud of dust and smoke, a 50-foot-high wall of rock sloughed away with a shudder and a long crashing fall, and 20,000 tons of rock was suddenly on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The campers laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s cool!\u201d said Ian Dalton, a student from Camdenton, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Shoemaker, a student from Macon, Mo., concurred. \u201cIt was baad!\u201d he said. \u201cDo it again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t many wholesome explosions in the news these day, but those are what Summer Explosives Camp provides. It is just a louder, and arguably more exciting, version of the kind of summer experiences designed to recruit students to the quieter academic disciplines. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Darn!  When I was growing up the most violent camp ever got was shooting .22 shorts.  Thanks, April, for making me jealous.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a chemist&#8217;s dream come true: ROLLA, Mo. \u2014 Camp Winnigootchee was never like this. A group of high school students stood at the edge of a limestone quarry last month as three air horn blasts warned that something big was about to go boom. Across the quarry, with a roar and a cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}