{"id":134,"date":"2016-05-07T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=134"},"modified":"2017-03-03T17:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:50:49","slug":"purple-swirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/purple-swirls\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Swirls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Materials<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Milk<\/div>\n<div>Liquid Dish Soap<\/div>\n<div>Red Food Coloring<\/div>\n<div>Blue Food Coloring<\/div>\n<div>Shallow Dish<\/div>\n<div>\n<b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Pour cold milk into a shallow dish. Add 1 drop of red food coloring to one side of the bowl and 2 drops of&nbsp;blue food coloring to the other side. Then, add a drop or two of liquid dish soap to the center of the bowl and watch what happens. (You should see the colors begin to swirl and move.)<\/div>\n<div>\nIf the colors stop moving, you can add another drop of soap. Eventually, the colors will mix together to form purple. It does take a bit of time to occur, so you may want to give the mixture some help by stirring it until you get a good purple color.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Milk Liquid Dish Soap Red Food Coloring Blue Food Coloring Shallow Dish Directions Pour cold milk into a shallow dish. Add 1 drop of red food coloring to one side of the bowl and 2 drops of&nbsp;blue food coloring to the other side. Then, add a drop or two of liquid dish soap to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/purple-swirls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purple Swirls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}