{"id":5517,"date":"2014-04-29T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2014-05-10T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T20:45:28","slug":"mommy-why-doesnt-the-whale-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/29\/mommy-why-doesnt-the-whale-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy, will the whale fall on top of us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Museumgoers Wonder: Why Doesn\u2019t the Whale Fall?<\/h1>\n

By STUART MILLER<\/p>\n

\"\"From right, Roman Pacheco and his cousins visiting from Ecuador, Nancy and Marco Pacheco, look up at the massive blue whale suspended from the ceiling of the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History.\u00a0Credit Ruth Fremson\/The New York Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It is one of the biggest attractions \u2014 literally \u2014 at one of New York City\u2019s most famous destinations: the 94-foot-long blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History. Untold numbers gaze in awe every day at the 21,000-pound creature poised majestically in midair above the Hall of Ocean Life.<\/p>\n

They point and take photos. But how many visitors have pondered a basic question: What keeps the hulking whale \u201cafloat\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t even considered it,\u201d said Ian Mark, 40, visiting recently from Scotland with his daughter, Sarah, 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think about it,\u201d said Chris Witkowski, 30, from Jacksonville, Fla. \u201cIt is so massive, so that\u2019s a good question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gianina Arana, 27, visiting from Colombia, said the room\u2019s immersive atmosphere played a role. The false skylights are backlit with blue bulbs and have projectors and mirrors behind them to give the impression, when you look up past the whale, that you are looking out of the ocean at the sky. \u201cYou feel like you\u2019re part of the ocean, and so of course the whale is there,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s the magic of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times Museumgoers Wonder: Why Doesn\u2019t the Whale Fall? By STUART MILLER From right, Roman Pacheco and his cousins visiting from Ecuador, Nancy and Marco Pacheco, look up at the massive blue whale suspended from the ceiling of the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History.\u00a0Credit Ruth Fremson\/The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}