{"id":556,"date":"2012-08-20T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/wwii-war-sand-on-the-beaches-of-normandy\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T02:26:00","slug":"wwii-war-sand-on-the-beaches-of-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/wwii-war-sand-on-the-beaches-of-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII &quot;war sand&quot; on the beaches of Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Who knew? -Egg]<br \/>[BB]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/5hK5dmVIWRI\/wwii-war-sand-on-the-beach.html\">WWII &#8220;war sand&#8221; on the beaches of Normandy<\/a>: <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\" -Cbiknhb0O1M Ucac9Gnakvi Aaaaaaaagpu T8Avjmcmkfs S1600 Figure5\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CbIknHb0o1M_UCac9GNaKvI_AAAAAAAAGpU_t8AVjmCMKFs_s1600_figure5.jpg?resize=600%2C463\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>As much as four percent of the sand on the beaches of Normandy consists of shrapnel left over from D-Day. In a post about this at <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/war-sand.html\">BLDGBLOG<\/a>, Geoff Manaugh references a book called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0520265971\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0520265971&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=boingboing0e-20\">Sand: The Never-Ending Story<\/a>.&#8221; The book is about the science and culture of sand, from the ocean floor to Mars. Written by geologist Michael Welland, it sounds like a fascinating read!<\/p>\n<p><small>(Normandy sand microscopy image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsg.utexas.edu\/researcher\/earle_mcbride\/\">Earle McBride<\/a>, Univ of Texas)<br \/><\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=d738e16bd58920df5a4a8bd012afb34b&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=d738e16bd58920df5a4a8bd012afb34b&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/5hK5dmVIWRI\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Who knew? -Egg][BB]WWII &#8220;war sand&#8221; on the beaches of Normandy: As much as four percent of the sand on the beaches of Normandy consists of shrapnel left over from D-Day. In a post about this at BLDGBLOG, Geoff Manaugh references a book called &#8220;Sand: The Never-Ending Story.&#8221; The book is about the science and culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-8Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}