{"id":2144,"date":"2018-04-23T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2018-04-24T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:28:28","slug":"is-water-wet-can-fire-be-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/23\/is-water-wet-can-fire-be-burned\/","title":{"rendered":"Is water wet? Can fire be burned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2143\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042318-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2143\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042318-2-300x299.jpg\" alt=\"Is water wet? Can fire be burned?\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042318-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042318-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042318-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is water wet? Can fire be burned?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wetness is a perception, not an objective fact, and perceptual clues for wetness are actually not so straightforward, as you can see in this physiology article: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/wetness-perception\">bit.ly\/wetness-perception<\/a>. So, is water wet? Sorta maybe. Can fire *be* burned? Though as a wall built partly of flammable material I wish fire could be burned, it can&#8217;t. Fire is just the light and heat resulting from oxidation of fuel; there is nothing in fire to oxidize, because fire itself isn&#8217;t a substance it&#8217;s a process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wetness is a perception, not an objective fact, and perceptual clues for wetness are actually not so straightforward, as you can see in this physiology article: bit.ly\/wetness-perception. So, is water wet? Sorta maybe. Can fire *be* burned? Though as a wall built partly of flammable material I wish fire could be burned, it can&#8217;t. Fire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/23\/is-water-wet-can-fire-be-burned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is water wet? Can fire be burned?&#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":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-quotes","category-riddles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","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=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}