{"id":8468,"date":"2017-03-08T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T00:57:57","slug":"a-better-use-for-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/08\/a-better-use-for-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Use For Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes when you’re looking for something, you find something else. In my case, I was looking for information on yellow peas, and Wikipedia <\/span><\/a><\/b><\/i>handed me this:<\/p>\n

Split peas were used for an unusual non-culinary purpose during the Second World War<\/span><\/a>. Great efforts were made to optimise the manufacture of the British Supermarine Spitfire<\/span><\/a> fighter aircraft<\/span><\/a>, speeding and cheapening manufacture while maintaining or enhancing performance. Flush-headed rivets<\/span><\/a> were used on a prototype for the smoothest possible surfaces, but this made it more difficult, expensive, and slower to produce than using the usual dome-headed rivets<\/span><\/a>. Rather than the cumbersome alternative of comparing actual rivets, split peas were glued over all the flush rivets to simulate dome heads. This reduced the speed by 22\u00a0mph (35\u00a0km\/h), which was unacceptable. Split peas were then progressively removed to determine which rivets really needed to be flush; the results were applied to production aeroplanes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t tell your kids about this until they’re firmly hooked on the green stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes when you’re looking for something, you find something else. In my case, I was looking for information on yellow peas, and Wikipedia handed me this: Split peas were used for an unusual non-culinary purpose during the Second World War. Great efforts were made to optimise the manufacture of the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8469,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/8469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}