{"id":4786,"date":"2016-04-13T22:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:20:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:20:32","slug":"d-is-for-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2016\/04\/d-is-for-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"D is for Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of pooches in the chemistry building is booming once again which raises a perennial pet question: do chemists show their affection differently than other dog owners?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/2016\/04\/Izzy-the-D-orbital-Dog-041216.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4787\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/2016\/04\/Izzy-the-D-orbital-Dog-041216-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Izzy the D orbital Dog 041216\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Decide for yourself. Izzy is just one lobe short of becoming <em>d<\/em>(z^2). And, so far, she is willing to sit still for this. (I can&#8217;t help asking, though, if\u00a0<em>d<\/em> orbitals are <em>d<\/em>og orbitals, what do <em>s<\/em> and\u00a0<em>p<\/em> orbitals look like? Send me your pictures.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of pooches in the chemistry building is booming once again which raises a perennial pet question: do chemists show their affection differently than other dog owners?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4786","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\/4786","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=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}