{"id":817,"date":"2004-03-06T14:34:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-06T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighnet.org\/wordpress\/?p=817"},"modified":"2004-03-06T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2004-03-06T14:34:25","slug":"la-science-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gator3134.temp.domains\/~raleigh2\/2004\/03\/06\/la-science-center\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Science Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/california-science-center-los-angeles.visit-los-angeles.com\/\">California Science Center<\/a> (which I didn&#8217;t even know existed until a few days ago) was having an exhibition about risk. They sold it as this exciting participatory kind of thing where you could risk your life walking on an iron beam 17 stories above the ground like a construction worker or laying on a bed of nails. <\/p>\n<p>It was pretty sanitized risk though. The iron beam wasn&#8217;t even 17 inches much less 17 stories. 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