{"id":16400,"date":"2018-01-15T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T02:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16400"},"modified":"2018-01-15T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T02:03:45","slug":"frit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/01\/15\/frit\/","title":{"rendered":"frit"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>To <i>frit<\/i> is to fuse glass ingredients to prepare to turn them into glass.<\/p>\r\n<p>But <i>fritted glass<\/i> isn\u2019t just glass. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audubon.org\/bird\/at_home\/SafeWindows.html\">Audobon<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Fritted glass has granules fused onto it to create a frost-like pattern that reduces its reflectivity and transparency.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>It was being tested at Swarthmore College some years back, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5076012\">according to NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Everbach and Klem recommended using so-called \u201cfritted\u201d glass. It's etched with closely spaced rows of small circles. When standing right in front of it, the glass is hard to see through, but Everbach says from a slight distance, the dots don't obscure vision that much.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>(Entry drafted in 2006. I\u2019m gonna try to post some of the draft entries that\u2019ve been sitting around for a long time.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16763,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400\/revisions\/16763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}