{"id":10723,"date":"2012-05-30T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2012-05-30T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:10:37","slug":"completely-geeky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10723","title":{"rendered":"COMPLETELY GEEKY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched Season 2 of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_August_Kekul%C3%A9_von_Stradonitz\">&#8220;Breaking Bad.&#8221;<\/a>  What a great series.  And I love that chemistry plays such an important part.  So far, I&#8217;m really impressed with the chem geek level.  My favorite bit was a tad more subtle than Mr. White blowing up a drug kingpin&#8217;s house with mercury fulminate.  In the last episode of season 2, when a female character ODs, her father enters her apartment to choose a dress for her to be buried in.  There are examples of her drawings all over her bedroom.  And right on top is a drawing of a snake swallowing its tail.  That imagery, of course, is one of the most famous in chemistry.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_August_Kekul%C3%A9_von_Stradonitz\">Kekule<\/a> supposedly dreamed it when he figured out the ring structure of benzene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched Season 2 of &#8220;Breaking Bad.&#8221; What a great series. And I love that chemistry plays such an important part. So far, I&#8217;m really impressed with the chem geek level. My favorite bit was a tad more subtle than Mr. White blowing up a drug kingpin&#8217;s house with mercury fulminate. In the last episode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10725,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}