{"id":2814,"date":"2011-04-05T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2024-01-31T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T21:05:59","slug":"why-are-bananas-radioactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2011\/04\/05\/why-are-bananas-radioactive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are bananas radioactive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bananas are actually&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/#!5783811\/why-are-bananas-radioactive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radioactive<\/a>. I remember learning this is school but it&#8217;s a fun article to read in these days where we in the US are more scared of radioactivity than the Japanese who a) HAVE been nuke bombed, and b) HAVE a nuke plant in trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are they freaking out? Well, maybe a little, but since their culture runs on stoic adult behavior and science instead of reality show hysterics and &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; they actually have a handle on things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incidentally, don&#8217;t tell Republicans about this thing about bananas. Between their end times hysteria and their hatred of all things brown people grow (and eat, and make, and reproduce) they&#8217;ll ban the fruit in mere moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"390\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-10.png?resize=620%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-10.png?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-10.png?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bananas are actually&nbsp;radioactive. I remember learning this is school but it&#8217;s a fun article to read in these days where we in the US are more scared of radioactivity than the Japanese who a) HAVE been nuke bombed, and b) HAVE a nuke plant in trouble. Are they freaking out? Well, maybe a little, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}