{"id":174,"date":"2018-05-16T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/?p=174"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T09:35:09","slug":"international-day-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/2018\/05\/16\/international-day-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laserinventor.com\/img\/Hughes-times.png\" width=\"176\" height=\"222\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Maiman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today in 1960, Theodore &#8220;Ted&#8221; Maiman, demonstrated the first laser (ruby crystal laser) in Malibu. To celebrate that occasion, we had originally planned to make this day &#8211; the international day of light &#8211; the day our PIV laser system is fully operational.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the best laid plans of mice and man don&#8217;t always work out, and there were a few delays with the order of our laser enclosure, which hopefully will be here in June.<\/p>\n<p>So, while we can&#8217;t fire up our own laser, please join us in commemorating &#8220;Laser Day&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in 1960, Theodore &#8220;Ted&#8221; Maiman, demonstrated the first laser (ruby crystal laser) in Malibu. To celebrate that occasion, we had originally planned to make this day &#8211; the international day of light &#8211; the day our PIV laser system is fully operational. Unfortunately the best laid plans of mice and man don&#8217;t always work out, and there were a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}