{"id":2164,"date":"2012-12-21T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2013-04-17T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:10:03","slug":"almanac-gunpowder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/2164\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanac &#8211; Gunpowder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Almanac is gunpowder.<a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/alchemy.php#AlchemicalCompounds\" target=\"_blank\"> Alchemical gunpowder<\/a>, that is. Salt (charcoal), sulfur (sulfur), and mercury (saltpeter) in unison to create a highly flammable compound. Interesting factoid. Europe (like Japethe) had a shortage of naturally occurring saltpeter so chemists developed the &#8220;French Method&#8221; of making it. What is the French Method? It&#8217;s a polite way of saying that they use dung and urine to make saltpeter. Oh euphemisms.<\/p>\n<p>Snow by Night&#8217;s holiday break begins next week. We&#8217;ll be posting holiday sketches for the next two weeks. Stop by and get some holiday cheer. Pages resume on January 7!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Almanac is gunpowder. Alchemical gunpowder, that is. Salt (charcoal), sulfur (sulfur), and mercury (saltpeter) in unison to create a highly flammable compound. Interesting factoid. Europe (like Japethe) had a shortage of naturally occurring saltpeter so chemists developed the &#8220;French Method&#8221; of making it. What is the French Method? It&#8217;s a polite way of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}