{"id":5582,"date":"2011-11-29T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/brinicles-are-icy-fingers-of-death-brinicles\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:44:20","slug":"brinicles-are-icy-fingers-of-death-brinicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/brinicles-are-icy-fingers-of-death-brinicles\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LMhBuSBemRk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/death-by-brinicle\/\" target=\"_blank\">&lsquo;Brinicles&rsquo; are icy fingers of death<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Brinicles form because of the peculiarities of super cold ocean water &hellip; Sea ice forms with channels through which highly salty water flows downward toward the bottom. The very cold, very salty water freezes the warmer, less salty water slowly creating a giant tube through which the freezing water flows.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the tube touches bottom and the freezing touch extends outward, killing anything in its path.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty freaky to watch the time-lapse video&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LMhBuSBemRk &lsquo;Brinicles&rsquo; are icy fingers of death Brinicles form because of the peculiarities of super cold ocean water &hellip; Sea ice forms with channels through which highly salty water flows downward toward the bottom. The very cold, very salty water freezes the warmer, less salty water slowly creating a giant tube through which the freezing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/brinicles-are-icy-fingers-of-death-brinicles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}