{"id":1174,"date":"2009-08-17T21:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T04:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2014-07-15T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T22:27:41","slug":"solar-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/solar-dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/kinetic-arts\/sculpture\/sculpture.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"From the robotic sculptures and work by James G Watt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1_start-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"solar dragonfly\" title=\"solar dragonfly\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1175\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>Fossil. August 2005 <\/p>\n<p>Fossil is a vary large solar powered mechanical dragon fly.<br \/>\nIn sunshine the wings will periodicly flutter and the mouth section twitches. <\/p>\n<p>Length: 28cm. Wing Span: 33cm.<\/p>\n<p>Fossil is so named because as I constructed it I was thinking of Meganeura,<br \/>\na huge 320 million years old dragonfly-like insect belonging to the Protodonata group,<br \/>\nwhich had a wing span of around 70cm.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>See larger photos and more at <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/kinetic-arts\/sculpture\/sculpture.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"From the robotic sculptures and work by James G Watt\"> James G Watt&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fossil. August 2005 Fossil is a vary large solar powered mechanical dragon fly. In sunshine the wings will periodicly flutter and the mouth section twitches. Length: 28cm. Wing Span: 33cm. Fossil is so named because as I constructed it I was thinking of Meganeura, a huge 320 million years old dragonfly-like insect belonging to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[103,371,1030,1059,1118],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","tag-automata","tag-dragonfly","tag-robots","tag-sculpture","tag-solar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-iW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5082,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}