{"id":54,"date":"2008-10-09T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-10-26T23:54:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T03:54:03","slug":"droppin-some-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Droppin&#8217; Some Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>L.A.S.E.R.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know it is an acronym. It stands for <strong>L<\/strong>ight <strong>A<\/strong>mplification by <strong>S<\/strong>timulated <strong>E<\/strong>mission of <strong>R<\/strong>adiation. Gordon Gould was the first person to use the term LASER in the late 1950\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. The acronym roots of the word LASER have been mainly forgotten outside the scientific world due to the terms wide spread use. So remember to capitalize or I will shoot you with my LASER.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Posh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The origins of the word posh may be false. It was believed that it was originally and acronym for <strong>P<\/strong>ort <strong>O<\/strong>ut <strong>S<\/strong>tarboard <strong>H<\/strong>ome. The letters POSH were supposedly stamped on tickets when boarding a ship. Etymologists have not found any indication that his may be true. But they have found a connection to this theory and a song in the movie \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The song is called Posh and the lyrics are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Dick Van Dyke lied to us!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crystallophone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an instrument that produces sound from glass. So when you are watching tv and see those people with their wine glasses making music you can sound smart and proclaim \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hey that guy is playing a crystallophone!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/icon-copy-profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40\" title=\"icon-copy-profile\" src=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/icon-copy-profile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>Tra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.A.S.E.R. For those who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know it is an acronym. It stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Gordon Gould was the first person to use the term LASER in the late 1950\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. The acronym roots of the word LASER have been mainly forgotten outside the scientific world due to the terms wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}