{"id":3503,"date":"2009-07-07T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2009-07-07T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T18:42:00","slug":"chum-that-makes-you-go-huh-toilet-paper-car-personalities-mystic-dates-structural-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"Chum That Makes You Go Huh? &#8212; Toilet Paper, Car Personalities, Mystic Dates, &#038; Structural Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some more articles that just caught my eye during my lunchtime reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CNN has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/07\/07\/mf.toilet.paper.history\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a Mental Floss article on how toilet paper is uniquely American<\/a>. We\u2019re evidently the leading consumers of the product; we\u2019re the inventors of the product; and of course, we\u2019ve come up with ways to market the product without referring to its specific function. Think of what the \u201cstrength\u201d, \u201csoftness\u201d, and \u201cabsorbancy\u201d are really saying&#8230;\n<li>The San Diego Union-Tribute has a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jul\/06\/us-auto-personalities-070609\/?science&#038;zIndex=127398\" target=\"_blank\">an AP article about personality traits of cars<\/a>. It talks about how the shape and styling of a car often reflect a personality the manufacturer wants to project. Given this, why do so many manufacturers want to reflect the personality: \u201cdull\u201d?\n<li>USA Today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/offbeat\/2009-07-07-time-date_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a piece about something that is going to happen tomorrow morning<\/a>: the \u201crare\u201d date\/time alignment of 04:05:06am 07\/08\/09. They are tying to imbue the date with all sorts of meaning, and why it is a good day for this and that. Of course, I read the article on the heels of watching the Penn &#038; Teller Bullshit episode on Astrology, so I\u2019m thinking, \u201cThis is news?\u201d\n<li>The New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/07\/science\/07glass.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article about the new observation boxes in the Sears Tower in Chicago<\/a>: the ones made of glass that suspend you &frac14; mi above the sidewalk. I\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll get me in one of those. The article\u2019s take on the boxes is interesting though&#8230; it doesn\u2019t look at them from the fear factor &#8212; rather, it looks at the use of glass as a structural building material. Those boxes are laminated tempered glass. Of course, that doesn\u2019t make a difference to your psyche&#8230;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some more articles that just caught my eye during my lunchtime reading: CNN has a Mental Floss article on how toilet paper is uniquely American. We\u2019re evidently the leading consumers of the product; we\u2019re the inventors of the product; and of course, we\u2019ve come up with ways to market the product without referring <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3503\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[275,59,225],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-advertising","tag-automobiles","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}