{"id":285,"date":"2011-12-14T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/the-bakken-museum\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:46:42","slug":"the-bakken-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"The Bakken Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<span> <\/span>The other day, Seth and I were able to go to a mansion here in the cities (using the great library passes that Hennepin county libraries allow people to check out).<\/div>\n<div>\n<span> <\/span>Not only was the mansion itself a treat to observe (I really enjoy old houses and architecture), but the mansion is actually &#8220;a one-of-a-kind museum exploring the mysteries of our electrical world.&#8221; (See their website: www.thebakken.org.)<\/div>\n<div>\n<span> <\/span>A word of caution, you may be shocked. Literally. The museum sports many interactive displays in which the visitor may touch and explore in order to learn about electricity.<\/div>\n<div>\n<span> <\/span>I am quite positive that something similar to one of Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s inventions shocked me all the way to my elbows when I touched it. I really wanted to get my hair to stand on end from static, but that sort of put a damper on my efforts.<\/div>\n<div>\n<span> <\/span>The museum also offers the opportunity to watch a display (about twelve minutes long) on the book &#8220;Frankenstein.&#8221; While I decided that I probably would never read the book, it was interesting to see how they used lighting to tell the story. This could be somewhat spooky for little kids, but interesting nevertheless.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebakken.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/frankensteinexhibit12.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebakken.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/frankensteinexhibit12.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span> <\/span>I would say that this little museum was worth a visit and I would enjoy going back again someday!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, Seth and I were able to go to a mansion here in the cities (using the great library passes that Hennepin county libraries allow people to check out). Not only was the mansion itself a treat to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-4B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}