{"id":1976,"date":"2008-04-19T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2008-04-19T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:04:00","slug":"55-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/its-true-%e2%80%94-im-crazy\/55-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/2425930832\/\" title=\"ph5.5 by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2239\/2425930832_4f05227f9d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"ph5.5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been eyeing my bathroom soap for weeks now, wondering why the hell the manufacturers opted to prominently include the soap&#8217;s PH balance on the bottle. Almost like it might sway some frantic soap-buyer to pick Select Brand over some other generic crap \u2014 <i>let&#8217;s see, they both come in cucumber melon, but Select Brand&#8217;s soap has a  PH balance of 5.5!!!<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>I kept trying to come up with more useful things the bottle designers could have put in that little oval. Maybe that neat Jesus optical illusion &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/2425169227\/\" title=\"jesus by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3147\/2425169227_c7bca89fc6_o.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" alt=\"jesus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or even the time-dependent Schroedinger equation for one spatial dimension &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/2425169615\/\" title=\"equation by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3126\/2425169615_58e9ab7507_o.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" alt=\"equation\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but then <a href=\"http:\/\/biology.clc.uc.edu\/courses\/bio104\/atom-h2o.htm\" target=\"_blank\">I actually started<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liquid_soap\" target=\"_blank\">reading about soap<\/a> and I realized that liquid soap generally has a lower and more skin-friendly PH than bar soap, so bragging about a PH balance of 5.5 is actually kinda legit, even if casual soap-buyers are oblivious, and all my snark melted away into a sticky pool of new knowledge. <\/p>\n<p>Fucking internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been eyeing my bathroom soap for weeks now, wondering why the hell the manufacturers opted to prominently include the soap&#8217;s PH balance on the bottle. Almost like it might sway some frantic soap-buyer to pick Select Brand over some other generic crap \u2014 let&#8217;s see, they both come in cucumber melon, but Select Brand&#8217;s soap has a PH balance of 5.5!!!. I kept trying to come up with more useful things the bottle designers&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-true--im-crazy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-vS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}