{"id":8876,"date":"2020-04-14T06:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:22:21","slug":"social-distancing-demonstrated-w-mousetraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/morning-show\/2020\/04\/social-distancing-demonstrated-w-mousetraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing: Demonstrated W\/ Mousetraps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This video drives home the importance of social distancing.<br \/>\nIt shows 500 mouse traps placed next to each other, and each one has a ping-pong ball<br \/>\non the trigger.\u00a0 When one ping-pong ball is dropped onto a trap, it sets off a wave of bouncing<br \/>\nballs and snapping traps that are flying everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Then they do a second version where the traps are placed further away from each other,<br \/>\nand this time the ping-pong ball goes bouncing past without setting off a chain reaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Social distancing works. We are all <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InThisTogetherOhio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InThisTogetherOhio<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jU4ZAkm3Py\">https:\/\/t.co\/jU4ZAkm3Py<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKJtfi4cuP\">pic.twitter.com\/uKJtfi4cuP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ohio Dept of Health (@OHdeptofhealth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHdeptofhealth\/status\/1248249304600449024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This video drives home the importance of social distancing. It shows 500 mouse traps placed next to each other, and each one has a ping-pong ball on the trigger.\u00a0 When one ping-pong ball is dropped onto a trap, it sets off a wave of bouncing balls and snapping traps that are flying everywhere. Then they","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":8877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-show"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 16:39:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/morning-show\/2020\/04\/social-distancing-demonstrated-w-mousetraps\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}