{"id":145,"date":"2016-05-07T17:57:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=145"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:53:23","slug":"purple-gak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/purple-gak\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Gak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Ingredients<\/b><\/div>\n<div>2 cups glue<\/div>\n<div>1 \u00bd cups water<\/div>\n<div>2 teaspoons Borax<\/div>\n<div>Red and blue food coloring<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Combine glue, water, and red and blue food coloring to make a purple mixture. In a larger bowl, dissolve Borax in one cup of hot water. Slowly add the glue mixture to the Borax. Mix well. It will thicken quickly. Pour off excess water and put in a shallow tray. Allow to dry for 10 minutes. Your child will enjoy squeezing and stretching the gak.<b>Be sure to have your child was hands after playing with the gak.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Store in a Zip-loc bag. Keeps for 2-3 weeks.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 2 cups glue 1 \u00bd cups water 2 teaspoons Borax Red and blue food coloring &nbsp; Directions Combine glue, water, and red and blue food coloring to make a purple mixture. In a larger bowl, dissolve Borax in one cup of hot water. Slowly add the glue mixture to the Borax. Mix well. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2016\/05\/07\/purple-gak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purple Gak&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"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-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}