{"id":868,"date":"2006-03-16T20:54:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T00:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=868"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:05:02","slug":"the-platelets-rise-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/868\/the-platelets-rise-to-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"The platelets rise to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=862\">The other day <\/a> I reported there were suggested science activities we wouldn&#8217;t be doing to supposedly learn more about blood.  Like the mix the red hots (1\/2 cup red blood cells) and lima beans (5 white blood cells) and lentils (1 tablespoon platelets) in 1 and 1\/2 cup karo syrup (plasma) activity.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what we did and learned.<\/p>\n<p>The platelets rise to the top!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/images2\/realsciencefakeblood2.jpg\"  height=\"281\"width=\"302\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And they rise to the top real fast too. Too fast for my camera to catch them all mixed together.<\/p>\n<p>If you look real hard you can see Raquel Welch swimming around looking for the Fantastic Voyage sub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idyyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/images2\/realsciencefakeblood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/images2\/realsciencefakebloodsm.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"316\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I reported there were suggested science activities we wouldn&#8217;t be doing to supposedly learn more about blood. Like the mix the red hots (1\/2 cup red blood cells) and lima beans (5 white blood cells) and lentils (1 tablespoon platelets) in 1 and 1\/2 cup karo syrup (plasma) activity. Well, guess what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,422],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-homeschool-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}