{"id":7018,"date":"2010-11-08T07:28:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2010-11-08T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T12:28:32","slug":"misery-loves-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7018","title":{"rendered":"Misery Loves Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/top-stories\/ci_16539481\">Stanford&#8217;s once elegant, $500,000 sculpted clock\/fountain sits glumly in storage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m not the only one running into trouble with a fountain clock (and I have more on that, later).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The clock sculpture is made of a black granite turntable on an asymmetrical base that revolved once a year and was in constant motion 24 hours a day. To support it, and create a perfectly level surface for the heavy slab, Stanford sank five concrete columns deep into the earth.<br \/>\nPowered by electricity, it ran on a mechanical system with custom gears that were submerged in running water, according to Susan Roberts-Manganelli, manager of collections for Stanford&#8217;s Cantor Center for Visual Arts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford&#8217;s once elegant, $500,000 sculpted clock\/fountain sits glumly in storage I guess I&#8217;m not the only one running into trouble with a fountain clock (and I have more on that, later). The clock sculpture is made of a black granite &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7018\">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":[30,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","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=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}