{"id":791,"date":"2008-12-27T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/791"},"modified":"2008-12-27T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T08:12:45","slug":"diet-coke-and-mentos-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/791","title":{"rendered":"Diet Coke and Mentos Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, since 1990 my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/photobooks.com\/~j\/\">Jay<\/a> and I have exchanged Christmas gifts that have been booby-trapped in some way. Since last year around this time I was getting married (and have thus been a little distracted from blogging), I&#8217;ve fallen behind in posting details of these traps. I hope to be a little faster in posting this year&#8217;s traps, but in the meantime I&#8217;ve finally posted Jay&#8217;s trap from last year: a particularly nasty trap that sets off ten individual bottles of diet-coke-and-mentos geysers on any would-be MacGyver who triggers it. I&#8217;ve also posted my own version of his trap which, while it&#8217;s not as pretty on the outside, does win out when it comes to the size of the mess it leaves behind. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-1\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"200px\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-1\/opened.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-1\/index.html\">Diet Coke &#038; Mentos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-2\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"200px\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-2\/2-liter-triggered.png\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-2\/index.html\">Diet Coke &#038; Mentos, Version 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, since 1990 my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/photobooks.com\/~j\/\">Jay<\/a> and I have exchanged Christmas gifts that have been booby-trapped in some way. Since last year around this time I was getting married (and have thus been a little distracted from blogging), I&#8217;ve fallen behind in posting details of these traps. I hope to be a little faster in posting this year&#8217;s traps, but in the meantime I&#8217;ve finally posted Jay&#8217;s trap from last year: a particularly nasty trap that sets off ten individual bottles of diet-coke-and-mentos geysers on any would-be MacGyver who triggers it. I&#8217;ve also posted my own version of his trap which, while it&#8217;s not as pretty on the outside, does win out when it comes to the size of the mess it leaves behind. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-1\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"200px\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-1\/opened.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-1\/index.html\">Diet Coke &#038; Mentos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-2\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"200px\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-2\/2-liter-triggered.png\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/Traps\/diet-coke-mentos-2\/index.html\">Diet Coke &#038; Mentos, Version 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}