{"id":298,"date":"2015-02-18T05:20:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-02-18T05:20:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:20:50","slug":"google-doodle-the-voltaic-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Google doodle: The Voltaic Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Google-Voltaic-Pile.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Google-Voltaic-Pile.gif\" alt=\"Google Voltaic Pile\" width=\"512\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/alessandro-voltas-270th-birthday\">February 18th<\/a> Google homepage image shows a voltaic pile lighting up the Google logo, in celebration of Alessandro Volta&#8217;s birthday. As more zinc and copper disks are stacked in the pile, the voltage increases and activates more of the light bulbs. This illustrates one of the progenitors of the modern battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February 18th Google homepage image shows a voltaic pile lighting up the Google logo, in celebration of Alessandro Volta&#8217;s birthday. As more zinc and copper disks are stacked in the pile, the voltage increases and activates more of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}