{"id":397,"date":"2007-01-25T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2007-01-25T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T18:02:43","slug":"sponges-who-use-sponges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Sponges Who Use Sponges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bold prediction: There will soon be warning labels on sponges. Why? Just examine the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/HEALTH\/01\/24\/germs.sponges.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">evidence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[A] study that found microwave ovens can be used to sterilize kitchen sponges sent people hurrying to test the idea this week &#8212; with sometimes disastrous results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But several experimenters evidently left out the crucial step of wetting the sponge. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Just wanted you to know that your article on microwaving sponges and scrubbers aroused my interest. However, when I put my sponge\/scrubber into the microwave, it caught fire, smoked up the house, ruined my microwave, and pissed me off,&#8221; one correspondent wrote. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe there should be a law that says you have to be smarter than a sponge to use a sponge.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/science\/07\/01\/25\/0321251.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bold prediction: There will soon be warning labels on sponges. Why? Just examine the evidence: [A] study that found microwave ovens can be used to sterilize kitchen sponges sent people hurrying to test the idea this week &#8212; with sometimes disastrous results. But several experimenters evidently left out the crucial step of wetting the sponge. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}