{"id":749,"date":"2006-10-27T04:57:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2015-08-09T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T08:59:19","slug":"unbreakable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Unbreakable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes a non-macro filler post.<\/p>\n<p>One fine day many many moons ago, I decided that it would be fun to take a picture of something exploding or shattering into pieces.<\/p>\n<p>We had plenty of free expired Vitamin C bottles in the office, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashpop.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">smashpOp<\/a> and I set out to an abandoned field to capture beautiful shots of destruction.<\/p>\n<p>I wore my safety goggles, and smashpOp hid behind his (then) Panasonic FZ-5, zoomed all the way in, to capture the explosion without getting hit by the shards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/smashpeton2.jpg\"><br \/>\nBut first, clear out the expired Vitamin C tablets! (Okay, in retrospect, this would&#8217;ve been better shot from under my hand.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/smashpeton1.jpg\"><br \/>\nNot enough tablets exited the bottle&#8217;s neck in one swing, so I poured them into the box. I&#8217;m not sure how we got the cloudy effect though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/smashpeton3.jpg\"><br \/>\nNow that the bottle was cleared, we had one shot! I practiced by tossing a rock and seeing how far it went, so smashpOp could frame it. (The bottle is about to land on the far right.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it didn&#8217;t just land. It <b>bounced<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/smashpeton4.jpg\"><br \/>\nAlas, it did not break, so gravity might bring in more impact!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/smashpeton5.jpg\"><br \/>\nMission failed. This was one indestructible Vitamin C bottle. Safety glass. I&#8217;ll know where I wanna keep my valuables next time &#8211; in such thick, bouncy glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes a non-macro filler post. One fine day many many moons ago, I decided that it would be fun to take a picture of something exploding or shattering into pieces. We had plenty of free expired Vitamin C bottles in the office, and smashpOp and I set out to an abandoned field to capture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9698,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/9698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}