{"id":1481,"date":"2019-02-14T09:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2019-02-14T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:38:19","slug":"polarized-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/polarized-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarized Rainbow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Polarized Rainbow!\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/317287048?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe this should have been obvious, but it took me totally by surprise:  rainbows are made entirely of polarized light! (I&#8217;m guessing this is because of how the light bounces off the insides of the raindrops on its way back to you.) So if you put on polarized lenses (like some sunglasses) and tilt your head sideways, you  can make them disappear\u2014 or make them look twice as bright against the non-polarized sky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe this should have been obvious, but it took me totally by surprise: rainbows are made entirely of polarized light! (I&#8217;m guessing this is because of how the light bounces off the insides of the raindrops on its way back to you.) So if you put on polarized lenses (like some sunglasses) and tilt your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/polarized-rainbow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polarized Rainbow!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,60],"tags":[190,189],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-perception-hacking","category-video","tag-polarized","tag-rainbow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}