{"id":252,"date":"2005-07-21T01:52:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T07:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/252"},"modified":"2005-07-21T01:55:40","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T07:55:40","slug":"i-want-to-build-a-stonehenge-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/252","title":{"rendered":"I want to build a Stonehenge, Dad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh,   my heart is singing with joy. As much as I shrug off mysticism and wicca (they&#8217;re neat, but not for me), I do get really excited about the mystery behind ancient structures. The pyramids are a good example. I think my favorite is Stonehenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>, doing their job, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/07\/20\/michigan_carpenter_b.html\">reported a story <\/a>about a man in Michigan who has figured out a way (possibly THE way) that ancient Britons could have created Stonehenge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cwrl.utexas.edu\/~rouland\/309l_fall03\/course\/stonehedge_half.jpg\" alt=\"Stonehenge\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exn.ca\/dailyplanet\/view.asp?date=2\/17\/2004#\">Here&#8217;s a link <\/a>to the page on Discovery.ca. It&#8217;s the last item on the page, and there&#8217;s a video of the story. It&#8217;s so cool!<\/p>\n<p>The guy is a former construction worker with a penchance for moving heavy things. Sound like anyone familiar? His name is Wally Wallington, and he has his own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theforgottentechnology.com\/\">website<\/a> that I&#8217;m SURE I&#8217;ll be perusing for the rest of the day, as I figure out how moving heavy stuff can become part of my library science thesis.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me want to build another rock wall on my parent&#8217;s farm. Or maybe a replica of the Easter Island thingies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/magliery.com\/Thompson\/images\/postcards\/pc-easter.jpg\" alt=\"Easter Island\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my heart is singing with joy. As much as I shrug off mysticism and wicca (they&#8217;re neat, but not for me), I do get really excited about the mystery behind ancient structures. The pyramids are a good example. I think my favorite is Stonehenge. BoingBoing, doing their job, reported a story about a man [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}