{"id":201,"date":"2006-12-02T15:09:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T19:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=201"},"modified":"2006-12-02T15:09:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T19:09:26","slug":"holy_greeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2006\/12\/holy_greeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Greeks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to believe in Atlantis again&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Ancient astronomical\ufffddevice thrills\ufffdscholars - CNN.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/space\/11\/30\/astronomy.calculator.reut\/index.html\">Ancient astronomical\ufffddevice thrills\ufffdscholars &#8211; CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Antikythera Mechanism is the earliest known device to contain an intricate set of gear wheels. It was retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901 but until now what it was used for has been a mystery.Although the remains are fragmented in 82 brass pieces, scientists from Britain, Greece and the United States have reconstructed a model of it using high-resolution X-ray tomography. They believe their findings could force a rethink of the technological potential of the ancient Greeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to believe in Atlantis again&#8230; Ancient astronomical\ufffddevice thrills\ufffdscholars &#8211; CNN.com The Antikythera Mechanism is the earliest known device to contain an intricate set of gear wheels. It was retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2006\/12\/holy_greeks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants","tag-atlantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}