{"id":179,"date":"2004-05-05T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/05\/05\/the-radioactive-boy-scout\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T19:49:07","slug":"the-radioactive-boy-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/05\/05\/the-radioactive-boy-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radioactive Boy Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a434'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>David Hahn<\/b>!  Getting more deserved publicity from the original Harper&#8217;s reporter.  May this Eagle Scout live to see 30.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesjones.com\/silverstein1.htm\">True Story<\/a> of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor...<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not everyone who dreams of greatness sets up a<br \/>\nminor nuclear chain reaction before graduating high school&#8230; in his<br \/>\nrelative&#8217;s backyard, with home-grown gear&#8230; manages not to tell anyone<br \/>\nabout it for a year&#8230; and, after said back yard is turned into a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Superfund <\/span>cleanup site, gets away with a slap on the wrist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Hahn! Getting more deserved publicity from the original Harper&#8217;s reporter. May this Eagle Scout live to see 30. The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor&#8230; Not everyone who dreams of greatness sets up a minor nuclear chain reaction before graduating high school&#8230; in his relative&#8217;s backyard, with home-grown gear&#8230; manages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indescribable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}