{"id":419,"date":"2012-03-09T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T22:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=419"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:52:23","slug":"lessons-from-a-windshield-pitting-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from a Windshield Pitting Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120309Small.jpg\" alt=\"120309Small\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>March 9, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThis<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=203\">\u00a0(Breezy Point Day School) case<\/a>\u00a0sounds like the Windshield Pitting Epidemic&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIn the early 1950s, people in the Tacoma-Seattle area began to notice little pits in the windshields of their cars. Rumors started \u2013 Martians were landing, it was from nuclear fallout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWell, it turns out those pits were always there \u2013 they are in every windshield \u2013 but no one noticed them until there was anxiety about nuclear testing. For the first time, they were looking at their windshields instead of through them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAnxiety makes things take on a different meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Mass hysteria specialist Gary Small, psychiatrist at UCLA School of<br \/>\nMedicine, quoted in Philadelphia magazine (April 1991)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9, 2012 \u201cThis\u00a0(Breezy Point Day School) case\u00a0sounds like the Windshield Pitting Epidemic&#8230;. \u201cIn the early 1950s, people in the Tacoma-Seattle area began to notice little pits in the windshields of their cars. Rumors started \u2013 Martians were landing, it was from nuclear fallout. \u201cWell, it turns out those pits were always there \u2013 they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}