{"id":73272,"date":"2020-07-09T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T03:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=73272"},"modified":"2020-07-10T22:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T02:33:02","slug":"thursday-night-teslas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/07\/09\/thursday-night-teslas-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; Tesla\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 30 minutes we can mark Nichola Tesla is 164th birthday. He was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and July 10 in 1856 in Smija Croatia\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I know that because a) I&#8217;m a huge Tesla nerd\u2026 And B)\u2026 I&#8217;m helping this week with a summer camp for kids put on by the Tesla science Center in Shoreham New York.\u2026 It&#8217;s all being done remotely so I&#8217;m doing it from here. My only task is to show up a couple of times a week and Coke create with the kids who are from kindergarten through fifth grade. The topic is invention. Yesterday the kids chose to do a group project which involves creating a virtual<\/p>\n<p>Rube Goldberg device which takes a penny in from the left does something amazing in the middle and squirts the penny out to the right. I did the following in honor of Tesla&#8217;s birthday. Make sure you watch all the way to the slow Mo\ufffc<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9JAG0Ye7EzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Nikola<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 30 minutes we can mark Nichola Tesla is 164th birthday. He was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and July 10 in 1856 in Smija Croatia\u2026 I know that because a) I&#8217;m a huge Tesla nerd\u2026 And B)\u2026 I&#8217;m helping this week with a summer camp for kids put on by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/07\/09\/thursday-night-teslas-birthday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; Tesla\u2019s birthday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73273,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73272\/revisions\/73273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}