{"id":2018,"date":"2004-05-12T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/05\/12\/2018.html"},"modified":"2004-05-12T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T15:48:31","slug":"bulk-silly-putty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/05\/12\/bulk-silly-putty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk Silly Putty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A co-worker regaled us the other day with stories of 50-pound boxes of Silly Putty, available by mail-order.  (Apparently a 10-pound ball, thrown with the right force against a hard floor, can bounce up and smash a hole in the ceiling.)  I just stopped by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillyputty.com\/\">Silly Putty website<\/a> to look for it; they don't appear to be selling any 50-pound boxes, but they do have 5-pound blobs, for $50, in a variety of remarkable colors, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crayola.com\/store\/sp_index.cfm\">Silly Putty Store<\/a> (in the bulk section).<\/p>\n<p>You can also read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillyputty.com\/history_101\/history101.htm\">Silly Putty history<\/a>.  \"1945: Determined to find a use for the bouncing putty, General Electric sends samples to engineers worldwide.  No practical use is discovered.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker regaled us the other day with stories of 50-pound boxes of Silly Putty, available by mail-order. (Apparently a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}