{"id":15804,"date":"2021-08-20T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15804"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:53:04","slug":"hey-hey-wall-was-newton-hit-by-an-apple-when-he-discovered-gravity-how-do-we-know-its-not-an-orange-or-maybe-someone-dropped-a-watermelon-when-climbing-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/08\/20\/hey-hey-wall-was-newton-hit-by-an-apple-when-he-discovered-gravity-how-do-we-know-its-not-an-orange-or-maybe-someone-dropped-a-watermelon-when-climbing-the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey hey wall! Was Newton hit by an apple when he discovered gravity? How do we know it\u2019s not an orange, or maybe someone dropped a watermelon when climbing the tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He apparently didn&#8217;t get hit by it, just watched it fall and wondered what would make it do that in a straight line toward the Earth. He told a number of people the story (https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-apple1), so it seems likely to be true. There&#8217;s also a nice writeup of the story at Atlas Obscura (one of my favorite websites), and of all of the grafts of the tree that are still alive (https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-apple2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He apparently didn&#8217;t get hit by it, just watched it fall and wondered what would make it do that in a straight line toward the Earth. He told a number of people the story (https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-apple1), so it seems likely to be true. There&#8217;s also a nice writeup of the story at Atlas Obscura (one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/08\/20\/hey-hey-wall-was-newton-hit-by-an-apple-when-he-discovered-gravity-how-do-we-know-its-not-an-orange-or-maybe-someone-dropped-a-watermelon-when-climbing-the-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey hey wall! Was Newton hit by an apple when he discovered gravity? How do we know it\u2019s not an orange, or maybe someone dropped a watermelon when climbing the tree?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15805,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions\/15805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}