{"id":422,"date":"2007-08-29T00:26:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T14:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/08\/29\/set-your-lasers-to-fun\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T09:17:24","slug":"set-your-lasers-to-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/08\/29\/set-your-lasers-to-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Your Lasers To &#8220;Fun&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, shhh!  Listen up! Everyone, shush!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we are going to do.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a red laser pointer, make sure you have some fresh batteries in it. At 8pm, on the next full moon, everyone point their laser pointers at the moon at the same time! Try to pick a spot no-one else is pointing at.<\/p>\n<p>For those people who don&#8217;t have a laser pointer, there&#8217;s a special job for you. You have to saunter up to an astronomer around 8pm, casually glance at the moon and looked shocked: &#8220;Whoa! What&#8217;s going on? Is that <em>another<\/em> red eclipse?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tell all your friends. Remember: No telling any astronomers! This is a surprise! I can&#8217;t wait to see the looks on their faces!<\/p>\n<div class=\"aside\">I think this is a much better answer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2007\/08\/27\/even-the-title-needs-more-work\/\">problem<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, shhh!  Listen up! Everyone, shush!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we are going to do&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27],"tags":[371,68,59,60,64],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-thoughts-from-the-shower","tag-humour","tag-innovation","tag-moon","tag-physics","tag-prank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}