{"id":503,"date":"2003-10-09T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=503"},"modified":"2003-10-09T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T15:54:00","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-10\/503-did-you-know","title":{"rendered":"Did you know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which came first: the chicken, or the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/encnet\/features\/Columns\/?Article=accidentalinventions\">Silly Putty egg<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><b>Rubber<\/b> got its name when English scientist Joseph Priestley discovered that a wad of it was good at &#8220;rubbing out&#8221; pencil mistakes on paper.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nRubber shortages during World War II prompted the U.S. government to look for a synthetic rubber. An inventor at General Electric added a little boric acid to silicone oil and developed a gooey, bouncy substance. This substance failed as a substitute for rubber, but after the war it became an extremely popular toy known as <b>Silly Putty<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which came first: the chicken, or the Silly Putty egg? Rubber got its name when English scientist Joseph Priestley discovered that a wad of it was good at &#8220;rubbing out&#8221; pencil mistakes on paper. &#8230; Rubber shortages during World War &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-10\/503-did-you-know\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}