{"id":19292,"date":"2022-04-20T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=19292"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:49:50","slug":"fly-strandbeest-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/20\/fly-strandbeest-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly, Strandbeest, Fly!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve admired Theo Jansen&#8217;s weird &amp; wonderful Strandbeest creations since discovering them some 15 years ago, even getting to meet some in person in SF with the kids in 2016:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Strandbeests at the Exploratorium\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oG6bcXE6XPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now these creatures are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2022\/04\/theo-jansen-flying-strandbeest\/?fbclid=IwAR0yFi2f7biupxMzgV59mG3XC1AI8E9Wn3EZKY8n3vS1tWyB_5hqNIFg6FQ\">heading into the sky<\/a>! Check out the vid below, or jump ahead to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C97kMKwZ2-g?t=155\">roughly ~2:35<\/a> to see the latest (initial Freudian typo: &#8220;lateest,&#8221; which I quite like!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STRANDBEEST EVOLUTION 2021\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C97kMKwZ2-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve admired Theo Jansen&#8217;s weird &amp; wonderful Strandbeest creations since discovering them some 15 years ago, even getting to meet some in person in SF with the kids in 2016: Now these creatures are heading into the sky! Check out the vid below, or jump ahead to roughly ~2:35 to see the latest (initial Freudian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19297,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292\/revisions\/19297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}