{"id":393,"date":"2006-02-13T01:30:05","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T01:30:05","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T01:30:05","slug":"why-complete-idiots-guides-are-simply-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/2006\/why-complete-idiots-guides-are-simply-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Why <i>Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guides<\/i> are Simply Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/CompleteIdiotsChemistry.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/CompleteIdiotsChemistry.html','popup','width=599,height=780,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/CompleteIdiotsChemistry-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"195\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"25\" alt=\"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618447962\/thenewkaibrinksw?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;link_code=as1\">My chemistry textbook<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of reaction without being consumed in the overall reaction.&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1592571018\/thenewkaibrinksw?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;link_code=as1\">The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Chemistry<\/a><\/i>:<br \/>\n&#8220;Catalysts can be compared to my friend Erika (not that you know her). When I was in college, Erika was roommates with a woman named Ingrid. Erika helped to set us up, and I ended up marrying Ingrid. Though Erika was involved in the process (by introducing me to her roommate), she didn&#8217;t actually take part in the resulting reaction. Therefore she was a catalyst for that process.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My chemistry textbook: &#8220;A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of reaction without being consumed in the overall reaction.&#8221; The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Chemistry: &#8220;Catalysts can be compared to my friend Erika (not that you know her). When I was in college, Erika was roommates with a woman named Ingrid. Erika helped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}