{"id":581,"date":"2008-07-21T03:58:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=581"},"modified":"2008-07-21T03:58:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T08:58:36","slug":"where-does-a-728-ton-gorilla-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/581","title":{"rendered":"Where Does a 728-Ton Gorilla Sit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By gorilla, of course, I mean inverted pendulum.  The answer is: <del datetime=\"00\">anywhere it wants<\/del> in the middle of a tall building.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tuned mass damper for <a href=\"http:\/\/deputy-dog.com\/2008\/06\/22\/in-action-a-skyscrapers-amazing-728-ton-stabilising-ball\/\">stabilizing the Taipei 101 skyscraper<\/a>, and the link includes a video taken during the May earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By gorilla, of course, I mean inverted pendulum. The answer is: anywhere it wants in the middle of a tall building. It&#8217;s a tuned mass damper for stabilizing the Taipei 101 skyscraper, and the link includes a video taken during &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/581\">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":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}