{"id":2395,"date":"2012-03-17T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2012-03-17T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T23:48:28","slug":"how-swiss-army-knives-and-thermometers-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"How Swiss Army knives and thermometers are made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how a Swiss Army knife is put together?  Wonder no more!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/static.discoverymedia.com\/videos\/components\/sci\/8b17f91f01270076c3eefcdd42fbe266f4f5f658\/snag-it-player.html?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is just one of a whole pile of fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/videos\/how-its-made-videos\/\">&#8220;How It&#8217;s Made&#8221;<\/a> videos put out by the Science Channel.  Here&#8217;s another great one about how thermometers are made:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/static.discoverymedia.com\/videos\/components\/sci\/03c1d359a6fbe827d88bd4e95c0cfad489ecf323\/snag-it-player.html?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn these thermometers, they use an unspecified blue liquid (to avoid toxic mercury) that expands and contracts with temperature.  The calibration process is fascinating (and surprisingly manual).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already having trouble dragging myself away from this site!  Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how a Swiss Army knife is put together? Wonder no more! This is just one of a whole pile of fascinating &#8220;How It&#8217;s Made&#8221; videos put out by the Science Channel. Here&#8217;s another great one about how thermometers are made: In these thermometers, they use an unspecified blue liquid (to avoid toxic mercury) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}