{"id":46,"date":"2011-07-08T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=46"},"modified":"2011-07-08T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T13:54:44","slug":"lab-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/08\/lab-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to schedule a lab day or two, but I keep putting it off. That&#8217;s because this won&#8217;t be lab work in the good sense&#8211;running experiments&#8211;but in the bad sense, making up solutions and other boring routine stuff. I mean, it&#8217;s pretty hard to get excited about making up a liter of 100X Chalkley&#8217;s medium concentrate or aceto-orcein stain. But it has to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Which of course is why science kits are such a wonderful thing for homeschoolers. Sure, they could make up all the stuff they needed, or buy it piecemeal, but either of those is both time-consuming and very expensive relative to just purchasing a kit that contains what they need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to schedule a lab day or two, but I keep putting it off. That&#8217;s because this won&#8217;t be lab work in the good sense&#8211;running experiments&#8211;but in the bad sense, making up solutions and other boring routine stuff. I mean, it&#8217;s pretty hard to get excited about making up a liter of 100X Chalkley&#8217;s medium concentrate or aceto-orcein stain. But it has to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Which of course is why science kits are such a wonderful thing for homeschoolers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/08\/lab-day\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Lab day &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling","category-lab-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}