{"id":12804,"date":"2012-12-04T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12804"},"modified":"2012-12-04T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T08:00:19","slug":"rube-y-goldberg-tuesday-hanukkah-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12804","title":{"rendered":"Rube-y Goldberg Tuesday, Hanukkah Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/We-KRSy64r4?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/We-KRSy64r4?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A] Rube Goldberg machine that lights the Chanukah menorah. Hanukkah is the holiday of miracles and here is another one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Personally I think a consistent spelling of Chanukah\/Hanukkah would also be a miracle.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little disappointed in the camera work \u2014 many shots are too tight and quick, IMO \u2014 you don&#8217;t get a feel for the inter-connectedness of the device.  And the use of a robotic arm at the end isn&#8217;t kosher (I&#8217;m more of an orthodox Goldbergist.); I thinks it&#8217;s more accurate to say that the R-G device starts the robotic arm, which then lights the menorah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video [A] Rube Goldberg machine that lights the Chanukah menorah. Hanukkah is the holiday of miracles and here is another one. (Personally I think a consistent spelling of Chanukah\/Hanukkah &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}