{"id":3915,"date":"2012-06-21T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2012-06-21T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:03:58","slug":"paper-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"Paper in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/06\/paper-in-prison\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3916\" title=\"prison4-e1340191288160\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/prison4-e1340191288160-440x328.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/prison4-e1340191288160-440x328.jpeg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/prison4-e1340191288160-620x463.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/prison4-e1340191288160.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/06\/paper-in-prison\">very interesting article on how paper is used in prisons.<\/a>\u00a0Or just read this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Books have practical purposes as well, used to &#8220;prop up one end of the mats we sleep on,&#8221; wrote T.H. He had seen books &#8220;torn up and mistreated,&#8221; but was excited to find a complete GED test book and assess his 12th-grade knowledge. He wrote, &#8220;I\u2019m a high school graduate but I lost a lot of knowledge and going through the test book has been very rewarding!&#8221; Ironically, the GED manual contained chemistry lessons on explosives, giving T.H. the idea \u201cfor making gunpowder or fireworks as a chemistry experiment and an educational learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Small explosives can be made with household items if a person had the right ingredients and knowledge,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s probably illegal because it sounds like fun.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That last part got me thinking. That does sound fun and it&#8217;s not illegal! So in honor of Independence day coming up: <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2012\/03\/06\/brewing-up-gunpowder-with-household-products\/\">Small explosives can be made with household items<\/a> <strong>ALSO<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/make-homemade-smoke\">homemade smoke bombs<\/a> <strong>AND<\/strong> (this is my favorite) <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5902773\/build-an-awesome-high+flying-dirt+cheap-rocket-out-of-stuff-lying-around-the-house\">homemade rockets!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this very interesting article on how paper is used in prisons.\u00a0Or just read this quote: Books have practical purposes as well, used to &#8220;prop up one end of the mats we sleep on,&#8221; wrote T.H. He had seen books &#8220;torn up and mistreated,&#8221; but was excited to find a complete GED test book and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,100],"tags":[399,398],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-science","tag-paper","tag-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3923,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}