{"id":9695,"date":"2010-03-24T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/indian-military-to-weaponize-worlds-hottest-chili\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:18:15","slug":"indian-military-to-weaponize-worlds-hottest-chili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/indian-military-to-weaponize-worlds-hottest-chili\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian military to weaponize world&#8217;s hottest chili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/as_india_chili_grenades'>Indian military to weaponize world&#8217;s hottest chili<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized <a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhut_jolokia\" target=\"_blank\">bhut jolokia<\/a>, or &ldquo;ghost chili,&rdquo; to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>It has more than 1,000,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoville_scale\" target=\"_blank\">Scoville units<\/a>, the scientific measurement of a chili&rsquo;s spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeno peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian military to weaponize world&#8217;s hottest chili After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized bhut jolokia, or &ldquo;ghost chili,&rdquo; to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday. &hellip; It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili&rsquo;s spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/indian-military-to-weaponize-worlds-hottest-chili\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indian military to weaponize world&#8217;s hottest chili&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","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=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}