{"id":14299,"date":"2004-03-17T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/the-dangers-of-dihydrogen-monoxide\/"},"modified":"2004-03-17T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T12:27:00","slug":"the-dangers-of-dihydrogen-monoxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/the-dangers-of-dihydrogen-monoxide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers Of Dihydrogen Monoxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>MSNBC<\/i> reports that city officials of Aliso Viejo, California &ldquo;fell victim to one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22dihydrogen+monoxide\" target=\"_blank\">many official looking Web sites<\/a> that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as &lsquo;an odorless, tasteless chemical&rsquo; that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled.&rdquo;  Apparently, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4534017\/\" target=\"_blank\">City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide<\/a> that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production.&rdquo;  For those of you who haven&rsquo;t figured it out yet, the chemical symbol for this compound is H<sub>2<\/sub>O: water.  Looks like some paralegal will never hear the end of this&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107952642406512481?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC reports that city officials of Aliso Viejo, California &ldquo;fell victim to one of the many official looking Web sites that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as &lsquo;an odorless, tasteless chemical&rsquo; that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled.&rdquo; Apparently, &ldquo;City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/the-dangers-of-dihydrogen-monoxide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dangers Of Dihydrogen Monoxide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}