{"id":268,"date":"2013-04-07T05:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/?p=268"},"modified":"2013-04-07T05:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:58:34","slug":"xkcdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2013\/04\/07\/xkcdd\/","title":{"rendered":"XKCD&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1145\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/sky_color.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dammit, this exact thing happened to me today, but with a different question.  My family and I were driving from Palm Springs back to Los Angeles through the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Gorgonio_Pass\">San Gorgonio Pass<\/a>, one of the windiest places in the country.  My daughter asked &#8220;What makes wind?&#8221; and I told her that since hot air rises, this creates a vacuum for cold air to rush into.  Since the air in the desert is consistently hotter than that near the ocean, there is a near-constant wind rushing through the pass to get from the ocean to the desert.<\/p>\n<p>She paused for about five seconds and then asked &#8220;So why does hot air rise?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dammit, this exact thing happened to me today, but with a different question. My family and I were driving from Palm Springs back to Los Angeles through the San Gorgonio Pass, one of the windiest places in the country. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2013\/04\/07\/xkcdd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}