{"id":559,"date":"2025-07-30T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:01:17","slug":"science-is-lit-by-big-manny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2025\/07\/30\/science-is-lit-by-big-manny\/","title":{"rendered":"Science is Lit by Big Manny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81W1CFZMpSL._SY466_.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"466\" \/>Alright BOOM<\/span>, Big Manny is here to show you how you can become a real-life scientist and create awesome experiments at home using ordinary ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll learn some basic (and not-so basic)\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">chemistry tings\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; from combustion to chromatography (chroma-what-now?).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll meet the\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">amazing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">elements\u00a0<\/span>that each have their own personalities &#8211; from fiery hydrogen to the main man oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll create\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">explosive<\/span>\u00a0reactions &#8211; from fizzing mixtures to dish soap volcanoes!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start experimenting and find out why science is lit, innit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright BOOM, Big Manny is here to show you how you can become a real-life scientist and create awesome experiments at home using ordinary ingredients. We&#8217;ll learn some basic (and not-so basic)\u00a0chemistry tings\u00a0&#8211; from combustion to chromatography (chroma-what-now?). We&#8217;ll meet the\u00a0amazing\u00a0 &nbsp; elements\u00a0that each have their own personalities &#8211; from fiery hydrogen to the main &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2025\/07\/30\/science-is-lit-by-big-manny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science is Lit by Big Manny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}