{"id":3683,"date":"2015-05-16T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2015-05-17T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T04:01:03","slug":"big-very-big-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3683","title":{"rendered":"Big &#8230; Very Big&#8230; Finds&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I offer you a sampling of little facts I found today. But very true.\u00a0 Coincidentally, I present to you&#8230;. some photos I shot today &#8230;.which happen to coincide.\u00a0 In my little mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pipeline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3687\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pipeline.jpg\" alt=\"pipeline\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pipeline.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pipeline-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The longest Oil Pipeline in the United States is called the Rockies Express Pipeline.\u00a0 It is 1,678 miles long and it stretches from Colorado to Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>This is a photo of the shortest Oil Pipeline in the U.S. running from Miller Lane Carwash, Eaton, Ohio, to Miller Lane Carwash, Eaton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bolts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3686\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bolts.jpg\" alt=\"bolts\" width=\"800\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bolts.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bolts-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cloud-to-ground lightning bolts are a common phenomenon\u2014about 100 strike Earth&#8217;s surface every single second\u2014yet their power is extraordinary. Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>That is a lot.<\/p>\n<p>And these bolts, in the side of an old building&#8230;. are representative of up to one billion other bolts&#8230; in the sides of other buildings&#8230; WHERE electric is used &#8230; all over the world.\u00a0 Amazing Coincidence.\u00a0 Simply stinking remarkable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/organge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3685\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/organge.jpg\" alt=\"organge\" width=\"800\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/organge.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/organge-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally&#8230;<br \/>\nStudies show that apes experience dips in happiness in their middle age, much like people do.<\/p>\n<p>And of course\u2026 this orange peel on the ground.<br \/>\nThe correlation?\u00a0 Well\u2026 Apes in midlife crisis quit loving bananas the way they used to.\u00a0 They try other fruit.\u00a0 Peely fruit.\u00a0 Hence the orange on the ground.\u00a0 I imagine an Ape in Midlife Crisis was by this place on Barron Street&#8230;. sometime during the morning \u2026 and threw down that orange peel.\u00a0 Clowns all over the world are sorely dissappointed, as these are much harder to slip on than banana peels.<\/p>\n<p>And me and the apes are stuck in mid-life crisis.\u00a0\u00a0 How bananas is THAT?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\"><em><strong><span class=\"bqQuoteLink\">Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 <\/span>Soren Kierkegaard<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I offer you a sampling of little facts I found today. But very true.\u00a0 Coincidentally, I present to you&#8230;. some photos I shot today &#8230;.which happen to coincide.\u00a0 In my little mind. The longest Oil Pipeline in the United States is called the Rockies Express Pipeline.\u00a0 It is 1,678 miles long and it stretches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}