{"id":2441,"date":"2014-11-10T00:23:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T08:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2014-11-10T00:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T08:23:52","slug":"the-true-source-of-chemical-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2014\/11\/the-true-source-of-chemical-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Source of Chemical Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over G.N. Lewis. Forget electron sharing, bonding orbitals, and ionic attraction. <a title=\"xkcd #1442\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1442\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>xkcd<\/strong><\/a> has finally deduced the secret of chemical bonding. (And guess what? I see some unexpected connections between C and U chemistry!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/chemistry.png\" alt=\"Typographic Chemistry, xkcd #1442\" width=\"288\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over G.N. Lewis. Forget electron sharing, bonding orbitals, and ionic attraction. xkcd has finally deduced the secret of chemical bonding. (And guess what? I see some unexpected connections between C and U chemistry!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}