{"id":35773,"date":"2005-04-26T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/04\/26\/if-you-pull-a-1920s-fire-extinguisher-out-of-the-ocean-for-petes-sake-dont-drink-it\/"},"modified":"2005-04-26T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T09:00:19","slug":"if-you-pull-a-1920s-fire-extinguisher-out-of-the-ocean-for-petes-sake-dont-drink-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050426-19\/?p=35773","title":{"rendered":"If you pull a 1920&#039;s fire extinguisher out of the ocean, for pete&#039;s sake don&#039;t drink it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a fascinating source of information. He appeared again on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/\">my local public radio station<\/a> to discuss issues related to garbage floating in the ocean. For example, at the 5:05 mark, he reminds us that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/weekday.asp?Archive=04-15\"> if you pull a 1920&#8217;s fire extinguisher out of the ocean, you shouldn&#8217;t drink it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> Other fascinating facts: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ten-pound bowling balls float. <\/li>\n<li>Sneakers float upside-down, and the tongue acts as a rudder, resulting in left-footed sneakers and right-footed sneakers washing up on different shores. (Beachcombers from different-footed shores occasionally meet up to try to assemble a pair.) <\/li>\n<li>There are 1939 different species of plastic ducks. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a fascinating source of information. He appeared again on my local public radio station to discuss issues related to garbage floating in the ocean. For example, at the 5:05 mark, he reminds us that, if you pull a 1920&#8217;s fire extinguisher out of the ocean, you shouldn&#8217;t drink it. Other fascinating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-35773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a fascinating source of information. He appeared again on my local public radio station to discuss issues related to garbage floating in the ocean. For example, at the 5:05 mark, he reminds us that, if you pull a 1920&#8217;s fire extinguisher out of the ocean, you shouldn&#8217;t drink it. Other fascinating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}