{"id":23792,"date":"2017-03-13T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23792"},"modified":"2017-03-13T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:24:42","slug":"it-finally-happened-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/13\/it-finally-happened-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It finally happened to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bunch of quarters in my pocket.  About six dollars worth, along with a couple of one dollar coins.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled all the change out of my pocket and placed it on a desktop.  I walked away.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, I went to grab the coins so I could bring them to my office and toss them in the coin jar.<\/p>\n<p>One of the coins, quarter or dollar I can not say, was standing on its edge.<\/p>\n<p>My hand was faster than my brain, so I grabbed all the quarters up, thus knocking down the standing coin. I was therefore unable to test the hypothesis that if you drop some coins somewhere and one stands on edge, you can hear people&#8217;s thoughts until the coin falls over.<\/p>\n<p>I do remember hearing a static like sound that meant nothing.  The only other creature in the house was the cat. So, that makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bunch of quarters in my pocket. About six dollars worth, along with a couple of one dollar coins. I pulled all the change out of my pocket and placed it on a desktop. I walked away. A few minutes later, I went to grab the coins so I could bring them to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/13\/it-finally-happened-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It finally happened to me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1674,1675,255,1676,1677,1678,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6bK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23792"}],"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=23792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23792\/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=23792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}