{"id":3858,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3858"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/building-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Building blocks<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nAn atom is a fuzzy ball<br \/>\nElectrons in a spin<br \/>\nThe whole of it is very small<br \/>\nA nucleus within<\/p>\n<p>The nucleus is smaller still<br \/>\nThough all the weight is there<br \/>\nElectrons make the sparsest fill<br \/>\nMuch emptier than air<\/p>\n<p>Protons and neutrons, made of quarks<br \/>\nTied in with gluon string<br \/>\nThe nuclei are Noah&#8217;s arks<br \/>\nWith threes of everything<\/p>\n<p>Electrons are all negative<br \/>\nAttracted by a force<br \/>\nThe Protons are the positive<br \/>\nThat holds them tight of course<\/p>\n<p>Two forces bind the nuclei<br \/>\n(we call them weak and strong)<br \/>\nYou won&#8217;t confuse them if you try<br \/>\nSo please don&#8217;t get them wrong<\/p>\n<p>And everything that you can hold<br \/>\nIs made of piles of these<br \/>\nSome rusty iron, or shiny gold<br \/>\nAnd even stinky cheese<\/p>\n<p>Now atoms come in many kinds<br \/>\n(There&#8217;s ninety two or more)<br \/>\nAnd men with rather clever minds<br \/>\nHave made another score<\/p>\n<p>But atoms aren&#8217;t the end you see<br \/>\nThere like to join in bands<br \/>\nAnd when they do it&#8217;s chemistry<br \/>\nThat no-one understands!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nSo now you know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building blocks by cricketjeff on May 17, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved An atom is a fuzzy ball Electrons in a spin The whole of it is very small A nucleus within The nucleus is smaller still Though all the weight is there Electrons make the sparsest fill Much emptier than air Protons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7650,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3858\/revisions\/7650"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}