{"id":1388782,"date":"2016-04-21T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1388782"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T19:02:57","slug":"there-is-a-metal-that-can-melt-in-your-hand-and-it-melted-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/there-is-a-metal-that-can-melt-in-your-hand-and-it-melted-our-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is a Metal That Can Melt in Your Hand&#8230; and It Melted Our Hearts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/Thatsathingfinalmain_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/>Have you ever wanted to melt steel by shooting a concentrated plasma beam from your eyes? Well that&#8217;s&#8230; not what Reid and Josh do today. But they are able to melt a small sample of the metalic element Gallium with a cup of hot water and pretend they&#8217;re in a Terminator movie. It also fulfills Josh&#8217;s childhood fantasy of becoming a construction worker on the planet Hoth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9vJcRniFoZ4?rel=0\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More episodes of That&#8217;s a Thing <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/tag\/thats-a-thing\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted to melt steel by shooting a concentrated plasma beam from your eyes? Well that&#8217;s&#8230; not what Reid and Josh do today. But they are able to melt a small sample of   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[21944,20337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388782"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}