{"id":644,"date":"2009-12-09T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-12-09T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:20:46","slug":"i-got-off-on-a-tangent-the-other-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"I got off on a tangent the other day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/science.discovery.com\/fansites\/howitsmade\/howitsmade.html\">How It&#8217;s Made<\/a> that showed them, and remembering seeing reproductions sold at the local Renaissance Festival, I looked up astrolabes online. For a long time, it was the state-of-the-art astronomical instrument. You can duplicate my search without much trouble, but I&#8217;ll put two links here that I found interesting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrolabes.org\/electric.htm\">The Electric Astrolabe<\/a> is a web app you can use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/tops\/astlabe.html\">This site at the University of Hawaii<\/a> allows you to generate customized astrolabe templates that you can download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing an episode of How It&#8217;s Made that showed them, and remembering seeing reproductions sold at the local Renaissance Festival, I looked up astrolabes online. For a long time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-technology","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}