{"id":1613,"date":"2005-09-02T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T18:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2005-09-01T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T15:56:02","slug":"stopping-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/02\/stopping-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>Sailors who traditionally dumped barrels of oil into the sea to calm stormy waters may have been on to something, a new study suggests. The old practice reduces wind speeds in tropical hurricanes by damping ocean spray, according to a new mathematical &#8220;sandwich model&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn7726&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\" target=\"_blank\">Oil on troubled waters may stop hurricanes <\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sailors who traditionally dumped barrels of oil into the sea to calm stormy waters may have been on to something, a new study suggests. The old practice reduces wind speeds in tropical hurricanes by damping ocean spray, according to a new mathematical &#8220;sandwich model&#8221;. Oil on troubled waters may stop hurricanes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}