{"id":3320,"date":"2014-09-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3320"},"modified":"2014-09-22T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:00:00","slug":"microwaved-hamsters-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3320","title":{"rendered":"Microwaved Hamsters"},"content":{"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=\"25\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;If you put a hamster in a microwave oven, would it blow up?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from Beavis of MTVland<\/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;No, young man, it would cook, so to speak, much like a baked potato.  As a matter of fact, a microwaved hamster very much resembles a baked potato, both in appearance and taste.  In Russia, where microwaves were long used for espionage as much as for cooking, there&#8217;s a thriving black market in hamsters, since the Russian vodka demand has driven up the price of potatoes.  Some of these hamsters were illegally imported and placed on American tables as part of Russian efforts to freak out Americans. So the next time you buy a potato, poke it first to make sure it&#8217;s not a rodent. If it squeaks, put it back. And the next time you want a cheap pet, try a potato!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><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=\"25\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>If you put a hamster in a microwave oven, would it blow up? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3320\"><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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}