{"id":1352,"date":"2012-03-15T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atttraining.com\/auto\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2014-03-28T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T14:13:42","slug":"radioactive-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive plugs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1940 evidently <span style=\"font-family: Wingdings;\">J<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/031512_1459_Radioactive11.jpg?w=980\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1940 evidently J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79TdE-lO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1570,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=1570","url_meta":{"origin":1352,"position":0},"title":"History of the humble spark plug","author":"Tom Denton","date":"March 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"On January 7, 1902, Bosch was granted the patent for a high-voltage magneto in combination with a spark plug. 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