{"id":3883,"date":"2011-01-16T20:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T04:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/16\/searching-for-trace-elements-on-a-segway-reed-magazine-summer-09\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:45","slug":"searching-for-trace-elements-on-a-segway-reed-magazine-summer-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/searching-for-trace-elements-on-a-segway-reed-magazine-summer-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Trace Elements on a Segway (Reed Magazine Summer &#8217;09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idea for a contest: name the 5 most peculiar facts about Reed. To qualify as a &#8220;peculiar&#8221; fact, this item would have to be known to nearly 100% of Reedies and nearly 0% of Portlanders. I&#8217;m sure that somewhere on the winning list would be the existence of Reed&#8217;s nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n<p>The reactor has been a campus fixture since 1968. And, to those in the know, its long-time director, <b>Stephen Frantz<\/b>, is frequently seen zipping up and down Woodstock Blvd on his Segway. Stephen usually wears a raincoat and helmet when he commutes to campus, but he broke out the St. George gear for this photo and the companion article, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/summer2009\/columns\/eliot_circular\/1.html#knight\"><b>Knight in Glowing Armor<\/b><\/a>, that appeared in the <b>Summer 2009<\/b> issue of the <b>Reed magazine<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FrantzStephen.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/photos\/FrantzStephen.png\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0pt auto 20px\" height=\"400\" width=\"206\" \/> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idea for a contest: name the 5 most peculiar facts about Reed. To qualify as a &#8220;peculiar&#8221; fact, this item would have to be known to nearly 100% of Reedies and nearly 0% of Portlanders. I&#8217;m sure that somewhere on&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2011\/01\/searching-for-trace-elements-on-a-segway-reed-magazine-summer-09\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Searching for Trace Elements on a Segway (Reed Magazine Summer &#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","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=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}