{"id":11717,"date":"2017-09-16T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11717"},"modified":"2017-09-16T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T14:55:58","slug":"he-should-have-been-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/16\/he-should-have-been-an-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"He Should Have Been An Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across Theo Jansen&#8217;s work years ago, but had forgotten about it until today &#8211; the previous post on a proposal to use an automaton as a probe on Venus reminded me of Jansen. His work makes me wonder if he&#8217;s modeling, purposely or inadvertently, a part of biological evolution that could be studied fruitfully.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, here&#8217;s a taste.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"strandbeest evolution\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MYGJ9jrbpvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across Theo Jansen&#8217;s work years ago, but had forgotten about it until today &#8211; the previous post on a proposal to use an automaton as a probe on Venus reminded me of Jansen. His work makes me wonder if he&#8217;s modeling, purposely or inadvertently, a part of biological \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/16\/he-should-have-been-an-engineer\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11718,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions\/11718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}