{"id":733,"date":"2007-11-20T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=733"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:32:29","slug":"smells-like-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/11\/20\/smells-like-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Smells like rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that sharp, light, floral odor of the first rain? It has a name: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petrichor\">petrichor.<\/a> Actually petrichor is an exudation of certain plants during dry spells. This chemical leaches into rocks and soil, which then give it off, along with a compound known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geosmin\">geosmin<\/a> [literally, &#8220;earth smell,&#8221; that full, brown, slightly crunchy, moist smell of, well, earthy things, like beets]. Petrichor + geosmin = &#8220;smells like rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Petrichor and Geosmin are perfectly conceivable, under the current ridiculous drug-naming schemata, as names for medication. Petrichor is for drooling idiots with rocks in their heads&#8230;it comes in little brown pills. Geosmin, which comes in swirly blue and green tablets, aims to counteract LGS [Loss of Gravity Syndrome], when excess air in the cranial cavity causes a person to float away. Neither of them are really effective, but they sure sound imposing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that sharp, light, floral odor of the first rain? It has a name: petrichor. Actually petrichor is an exudation of certain plants during dry spells. This chemical leaches into rocks and soil, which then give it off, along with a compound known as geosmin [literally, &#8220;earth smell,&#8221; that full, brown, slightly crunchy, moist&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/11\/20\/smells-like-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smells like rain&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}