{"id":238523,"date":"2026-06-06T23:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/photons-behave-very-strangely-if-you-try-to-cut-them"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:09:50","slug":"photons-behave-very-strangely-if-you-try-to-cut-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/photons-behave-very-strangely-if-you-try-to-cut-them","title":{"rendered":"Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photons-behave-very-strangely-if-you-try-to-cut-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of one, instead of shortening it multiplies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of one, instead of shortening it multiplies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}