{"id":28870,"date":"2013-12-13T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=28870"},"modified":"2013-12-09T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T15:51:52","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-snow-globe-medicinally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-snow-globe-medicinally\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Can a snow globe be used medicinally?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/make-your-own-snowglobe-kit?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21445_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"Make Your Own Snowglobe Kit | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21445_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21445_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21445_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21445_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/21445_zoom1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>The first man to patent a snow globe design was actually trying to create an improved piece of surgical lighting. In the late 19th century, an Austrian named Erwin Perzy was tinkering with a <i>Schusterkugel<\/i>\u2014a special flask filled with water that had been used for centuries as a way to focus light. Perzy hoped to create a better surgical lamp by suspending bits of reflective material in the liquid. The sparkling effect reminded him of snow, and so he created a version of the flask with a model of an Austrian cathedral inside. When requests for more of his <i>Schneekugel<\/i> (snowball) began pouring in, he and his brother founded a business in Vienna to create them full-time. That family-run business continues today, and the precise material they use for their \u201csnow\u201d is a family secret that has been handed down over the generations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/make-your-own-snowglobe-kit?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Make Your Own Snowglobe Kit, $28<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first man to patent a snow globe design was actually trying to create an improved piece of surgical lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":30027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}