{"id":1297,"date":"2013-07-23T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:36:21","slug":"dont-bring-liquid-nitrogen-to-a-pool-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t bring liquid nitrogen to a pool party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2013\/06\/20\/liquid_nitrogen_at_jagermeister_pool_party_turned_out_to_be_a_bad_idea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.slate.com\/content\/dam\/slate\/blogs\/future_tense\/2013\/06\/20\/liquid_nitrogen_at_jagermeister_pool_party_turned_out_to_be_a_bad_idea\/166649485.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>J\u00e4germeister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jgermeister-pool-party-in-mexico-turns-poisonous-2013-6\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jgermeister-pool-party-in-mexico-turns-poisonous-2013-6\">party organizers in Mexico decided to dump some liquid nitrogen into a pool to emit a bunch of cool smoke<\/a>. No problem right? Cool steam effects right?<br>Wrong &#8211; 8 people were taken ill and one left in a coma after the nitrogen displaced the air right above the water and knocked them all unconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why knowing chemistry is important. It could save your life at your next bro-fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00e4germeister party organizers in Mexico decided to dump some liquid nitrogen into a pool to emit a bunch of cool smoke. No problem right? Cool steam effects right?Wrong &#8211; 8 people were taken ill and one left in a coma after the nitrogen displaced the air right above the water and knocked them all unconscious. That&#8217;s why knowing chemistry is important. It could save your life at your next bro-fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-kV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}