{"id":20769,"date":"2015-01-17T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20769"},"modified":"2015-01-17T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:48:10","slug":"does-rain-smell-like-rain-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/does-rain-smell-like-rain-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Does rain smell like rain, and why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever notice that you can smell rain? Usually, you smell it better after the rain, but if you are a highly trained naturalist, or Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, the Elfstone, D\u00fanadain, the heir of Isildur Elendil&#8217;s son of Gondor, or something, you can smell it before it rains.  During the rain you are usually inside smelling other things.<\/p>\n<p>It is called Petrichor.  That word comes from ancient Greek for rock (obviously) and God Blood. That makes sense because with all the gods up in the sky, a certain amount of God Blood would fall to the earth when it rains.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I came across this video on Petrichor, possibly explaining it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Waqmq_GTyjA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, basically, you are smelling raindrop spit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever notice that you can smell rain? Usually, you smell it better after the rain, but if you are a highly trained naturalist, or Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, the Elfstone, D\u00fanadain, the heir of Isildur Elendil&#8217;s son of Gondor, or something, you can smell it before it rains. During the rain you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/does-rain-smell-like-rain-and-why\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does rain smell like rain, and why?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2990,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5oZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}