{"id":1933,"date":"2015-02-05T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2015-02-05T01:11:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:11:16","slug":"paleo-future-casanova-the-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/paleo-future-casanova-the-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleo future: Casanova the robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a childhood admirer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omnibot\">Omnibot 2000<\/a>, I find this slightly creepy slice of history fascinating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Back in the 1980s, David Leventhal ran a small business renting out his robot to perform at parties around Los Angeles. The robot, Casanova, was a crass womanizer and an LA scenester. Today, Casanova is rusting away in Agua Dulce, an isolated town north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embeds.vice.com\/?playerId=YjMwNmI4YjU2MGM5ZWRjMzRmMjljMjc5&amp;aid=vice.com\/california-soul&amp;vid=g5dmMzczqqTCWT-I1obZ7SZV54ZtB8Rt&amp;embedCode=g5dmMzczqqTCWT-I1obZ7SZV54ZtB8Rt&amp;cust_params=embdom%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fvideo%2Fthe-life-of-a-party-robot-915%26topic%3Dtravel%26aid%3Dthe-life-of-a-party-robot-915%26auth%3DVICE+Staff%26keywords%3Dcalifornia+soul%2Cvice+documentary%2Ccalifornia%2Cparty+robot%2Cpartybot%2Ccassanova%2Clos+angeles%2Cla%2C1980s%2CDavid+Leventhal%2Cca%2Csouthern+california%26ac%3Dyes%26country%3Den_us%26contentId%3Dg5dmMzczqqTCWT-I1obZ7SZV54ZtB8Rt&amp;ad_rule=1&amp;description_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fvideo%2Fthe-life-of-a-party-robot-915&amp;autoplay=0&amp;share_url=http:\/\/www.vice.com\/video\/the-life-of-a-party-robot-915\" width=\"600\" height=\"338px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/video\/the-life-of-a-party-robot-915\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a childhood admirer of the Omnibot 2000, I find this slightly creepy slice of history fascinating: Back in the 1980s, David Leventhal ran a small business renting out his robot to perform at parties around Los Angeles. The robot, Casanova, was a crass womanizer and an LA scenester. Today, Casanova is rusting away in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}