{"id":325,"date":"2005-11-18T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/18\/quest-to-colored-bubbles\/"},"modified":"2005-12-23T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T23:42:25","slug":"quest-to-colored-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/18\/quest-to-colored-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest to Colored Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took Tim Kehoe, inventor of a new kind of bubbles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zubbles.com\" target=\"_blank\">zubbles<\/a>, 11 years to finally realize his dream of creating non-staining colored bubbles. It turned out to be an extremely complex chemistry lesson. It also proves that persistence, appropriate guidance and a bit of money (half a mil, to be exact), any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/space\/01\/14\/bush.space\/\" target=\"_blank\">crazy dream<\/a> can come true. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/colored_bubbles.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"180\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Colored bubbles\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\" target=\"_blank\">Popular Science<\/a> is running the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/science\/0a03b5108e097010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on the disappearing colored bubbles. It&#8217;s a rather inspiring and interesting read. It&#8217;s inspiring in that seeing someone who&#8217;s been through a series of unfortunate events eventually gets the &#8220;Hollywood ending&#8221; he was looking for. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Disney makes a movie out of this story not too long from now.<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\" target=\"_blank\">Popular Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took Tim Kehoe, inventor of a new kind of bubbles, zubbles, 11 years to finally realize his dream of creating non-staining colored bubbles. It turned out to be an extremely complex chemistry lesson. It also proves that persistence, appropriate guidance and a bit of money (half a mil, to be exact), any crazy dream &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/18\/quest-to-colored-bubbles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quest to Colored Bubbles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-logo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-5f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}