{"id":13899,"date":"2013-07-23T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2013-07-23T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T08:00:49","slug":"rube-y-goldberg-tuesday-history-lesson-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13899","title":{"rendered":"Rube-y Goldberg Tuesday: History Lesson Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/elements\/2013\/07\/history-of-rube-goldberg-machines.html\"> The History of the Rube Goldberg Machine<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Goldberg\u2019s carefully designed machines employed birds, monkeys, springs, pulleys, feathers, fingers, rockets, and other animate or inanimate tools to create intricate chain reactions that completed basic tasks like hiding a gravy stain, lighting a cigar while driving fifty miles an hour, or fishing an olive out of a long-necked bottle. As Goldberg himself put it, his cartoon inventions were a \u201csymbol of man\u2019s capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History of the Rube Goldberg Machine Goldberg\u2019s carefully designed machines employed birds, monkeys, springs, pulleys, feathers, fingers, rockets, and other animate or inanimate tools to create intricate chain reactions that completed basic tasks like hiding a gravy stain, lighting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13899\">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":[21,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","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=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}