{"id":4349,"date":"2018-12-22T23:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2018-12-22T23:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:52:20","slug":"what-is-glitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/what-is-glitter\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Glitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/21\/style\/glitter-factory.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/23GLITTER2-articleLarge-v2.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a much funner read than you would imagine \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">Each December, surrounded by wonderlands of white paper snowflakes, bright red winterberries, and forests of green conifers reclaiming their ancestral territory from inside the nation\u2019s living rooms and hotel lobbies, children and adults delight to see the true harbinger of the holidays: aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">Aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate settles over store windows like dazzling frost. It flashes like hot, molten gold across the nail plates of young women. It sparkles like pure precision-cut starlight on an ornament of a North American brown bear driving a car towing a camper van. Indeed, in Clement Clarke Moore\u2019s seminal Christmas Eve poem, the eyes of Saint Nicholas himself are said to twinkle like aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate (I\u2019m paraphrasing). In homes and malls and schools and synagogues and banks and hospitals and fire stations and hardware stores and breweries and car dealerships, and every kind of office \u2014 and outside those places, too \u2014 it shines. It glitters. It is glitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere,\u00a0all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">Ah, but if you, like an impertinent child seeking a logistical timetable of Santa Claus\u2019 nocturnal intercontinental journey, demand a more detailed definition \u2014 a word of warning: The path to enlightenment is littered with trade secrets, vapors, aluminum ingots, C.I.A. levels of obfuscation, the invisible regions of the visible spectrum, a unit of measurement expressed as \u201c10-6 m\u201d and\u00a0also\u00a0New Jersey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/21\/style\/glitter-factory.html\">What Is Glitter? &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/21\/style\/glitter-factory.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/merlin_148291236_3b26d98f-0ed7-4fa6-8030-4a362950d3f1-articleLarge.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a much funner read than you would imagine \ud83d\ude42 Each December, surrounded by wonderlands of white paper snowflakes, bright red winterberries, and forests of green conifers reclaiming their ancestral territory from inside the nation\u2019s living rooms and hotel lobbies, children and adults delight to see the true harbinger of the holidays: aluminum metalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-189","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}