{"id":574,"date":"2012-05-04T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=574"},"modified":"2012-05-04T07:27:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:27:42","slug":"friday-4-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/04\/friday-4-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 4 May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">07:27 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I finished the group of lab sessions on revealing latent fingerprints yesterday, and got started on blood. I think we&#8217;ll include only one or two sessions on revealing bloodstains. The problem is that, with the exception of Kastle-Meyer reagent, blood reagents are (a) extremely expensive, too much so for a kit, and\/or (b) very hazardous, and\/or (c) require specialized equipment like a forensic alternate light source, and\/or (d) just don&#8217;t work very well. Meanwhile, stuff for the forensic science kits is starting to accumulate in large piles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barbara is taking a day off work to run errands and get some stuff done around home. She had a pile of mulch dumped in the driveway yesterday. I estimate there&#8217;s about 3,058,207 mL of the stuff. Right after the guy left, Colin ran over to the pile, sniffed it, grabbed a mouthful, and ate it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">If you want to grab any O&#8217;Reilly ebooks, today&#8217;s the day. They&#8217;re having a 50% off sale on all titles, and all of them are DRM-free.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07:27 &#8211; I finished the group of lab sessions on revealing latent fingerprints yesterday, and got started on blood. I think we&#8217;ll include only one or two sessions on revealing bloodstains. The problem is that, with the exception of Kastle-Meyer reagent, blood reagents are (a) extremely expensive, too much so for a kit, and\/or (b) very hazardous, and\/or (c) require specialized equipment like a forensic alternate light source, and\/or (d) just don&#8217;t work very well.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/05\/04\/friday-4-may-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 4 May 2012 &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":[22,16,11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara","category-dogs","category-science-kits","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}