{"id":3881,"date":"2011-01-11T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/11\/nitrogen-day-reed-magazine-spring-2009\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:45","slug":"nitrogen-day-reed-magazine-spring-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/nitrogen-day-reed-magazine-spring-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitrogen Day (Reed magazine Spring &#8217;09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do Reedies celebrate nitrogen every spring? Is it just an opportunity to sell Nitrogen Day tee-shirts to the sartorially sensitive set? Reed magazine reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/spring2009\/columns\/apocrypha\/index.html\"><b>Nitrogen Day: Behind Reed&#8217;s Enduring Affinity for the Seventh Element<\/b><\/a> in the <b>Spring 2009<\/b> issue of the <b>Reed magazine<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently you have to go back more than 20 years to find out because <b>Prof. Shusterman<\/b> confessed total ignorance, while <b>Emeritus Prof. Dunne<\/b> admitted to being a participant. Several alumni also weighed in, including: <b>Rob Mack &#8217;93<\/b>, <b>David Weinstock &#8217;92<\/b>, <b>Nick Kaplinsky &#8217;93<\/b>, <b>Al Kun &#8217;95<\/b>, <b>Francisco Toro &#8217;97<\/b>, <b>Steve Carlson &#8217;93<\/b>, and <b>Ben Brau &#8217;93<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>[Shusterman adds: This article appeared in the aptly named <b>Apocrypha<\/b> section of the magazine.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do Reedies celebrate nitrogen every spring? Is it just an opportunity to sell Nitrogen Day tee-shirts to the sartorially sensitive set? Reed magazine reported on Nitrogen Day: Behind Reed&#8217;s Enduring Affinity for the Seventh Element in the Spring 2009&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/nitrogen-day-reed-magazine-spring-2009\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Nitrogen Day (Reed magazine Spring &#8217;09)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}