{"id":231,"date":"2012-03-28T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T23:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-03-22T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T22:43:24","slug":"closet-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/231","title":{"rendered":"Closet Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"25\" height=\"30\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; When I wake up in the morning and open my closet door, I&#8217;m afraid that instead of the light from my room shining into my closet, the darkness from the closet will fill up my room.  Could this ever really happen? <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from\u00a0Clair J, Age 7 of  Portland OR<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"30\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, it could.  If you&#8217;ve been bad.  When bad little children open their closet doors, they&#8217;re often engulfed by great impenetrable waves of darkness.  This is just nature&#8217;s way of testing you to make sure you&#8217;re mature enough to watch prime time television.  Remember, there&#8217;s nothing to be afraid of.  It&#8217;s just a shadow.  Small wonder we&#8217;re so afraid of shadows when most of humanity forms their conception of reality by staring at colored shadows that dance around inside a box!  It&#8217;s not your fault you were born in the television age.  You have a right to be neurotic. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>When I wake up in the morning and open my closet door, I&#8217;m afraid thatinstead of the light from my room shining into my closet, the darkness fromthe closet will fill up my room.  Could this ever really happen? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/231\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}