{"id":150,"date":"2007-11-25T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2007-11-25T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T18:08:20","slug":"dynamite-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/dynamite-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamite stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.invent.org\/images\/images_hof\/search\/inventors\/Nobel_Alfred.gif\" height=\"120\" width=\"80\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1867, Alfred Nobel patented dynamite&#8211;a stable compound of nitroglycerine and silica that could be remotely detonated with a blasting cap.  We could now literally move mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years later, Nobel&#8217;s will was executed with a 31 million kronor (about $5 million at the time) endowment for the prizes for which he is now best remembered.  Whether or not he created a &#8220;Peace&#8221; prize out of a sense of guilt, as some historians contend, I highly doubt.  But there is no doubt that his invention made both large-scale construction and large-scale killing much easier, and he was acutely aware of the implications of the latter for his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>If Nobel&#8217;s impact on the world is considered by some (not me) ambiguous, the value of his Peace prize is (at least, I think) far more so.  Here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/122958.html\">excellent primer<\/a> on what it takes to win one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1867, Alfred Nobel patented dynamite&#8211;a stable compound of nitroglycerine and silica that could be remotely detonated with a blasting cap. We could now literally move mountains. Thirty years later, Nobel&#8217;s will was executed with a 31 million kronor (about $5 million at the time) endowment for the prizes for which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}